Thread: Prediction: Win7 will flop harder than Vista

Originally Posted by Demon Parasite

I stopped reading when you said "M$".

Honestly, get over yourself. They are making money in a capitalist business. I don't see what's so wrong with it.

Macs are not better, and do not have better hardware. You are paying MORE money for the SAME hardware. Why don't you mac users get this? Windows is not "LOL BSOD SHITHOLE VIRUSES". I've never gotten one BSOD, and only 2 or 3 viruses in the 4 years I've had my computer. And the 2 or 3 viruses I got when I was younger, and didn't understand anything about it. Viruses are not really a threat to a Windows user, unless you like going on LimeWire and downloading YOUNG TEEN GIRLS STRIPPING.WMV.EXE.

The average lifespan of a PC is just over 2 years, the average lifespan of a Mac is 6. That's where the extra money comes from. The registry makes a PC unusable very quickly, and registry cleaners do not work as well as they should and most people don't use them. Viruses aren't a big thread, but malware and spyware is, the writers are getting very crafty. They are locking the processes and creating watcher processes that restart them after windows or you shut them down.

A 10 hour battery isn't bad either, find me a PC that has one of those.

Apples charges more for their hardware because they sell software much cheaper. M$ office is what, 300 dollars for everything? iWork is $79. Keynote is the industry standard now, not Powerpoint, Word is a terrible formatter, Pages has a LaTeX backend. Vista Ultimate is several hundred dollars, Leopard is $129. Windows comes with Windows Movie Maker, OSX comes with iMovie. Windows comes with Paint, OSX comes with GIMP. The software of the average PC can't even compare to the software of the average Mac.

Originally Posted by Ynot

Actually,
M$ was originally a joke about Microsoft's BASIC interpreter

QBasic to be precise I remember having to declare M$ as a string, M% as an integer, and M& as a float