pastrychef
macrumors 601
No. While I may consider installing it in a virtual machine, my main OS will remain OS X. I'm just much more comfortable with the UI. I like the menu bar being consistent, etc.
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If Windows 7 > 10.6 would you switch?
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Markleshark
macrumors 603
No. For all I care Leopard may be worse than Vista, but I like OS X and I don't like Windows. Simple as.
You don't have to force it to have it work in Windows, it (how do I say this?) "just works". Maybe someday OS X will be able to say the same. 'Till then, it's still a missing feature--particularly with respect to scaling <100%.
When he uses bootcamp yes he does 🙂
Ill give it a look but by than im sure we will have a new OSX as well that will continue to outpace and perform windows...
gnasher729
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Assuming that Microsoft goes on like they are doing right now, which is much more likely, this looks to my like an extremely hypothetical question. I don't think Steve Jobs is losing any sleep on this very remote possibility.
GimmeSlack12
macrumors 603
If Microsoft is lucky Windows 7 will be as good as 10.3 was (when OS X really matured). So I'm not concerned one Iota about Win 7. Though I do welcome some competition to push Apple even higher.
I mean think about it, whatever MS comes out with is ultimately a bit different than the league that OS X is in, they are the both in the same ballpark, but different leagues. OS X has been able to focus on efficiency for the past couple of revisions where Windows feels like it is still trying to hold together compatibility with all of the millions of drivers and making the GUI somewhat useable. Apple has rarely had to worry about that and so it can continue to advance the OS X GUI with a majority of its enterprise.
I mean think about it, whatever MS comes out with is ultimately a bit different than the league that OS X is in, they are the both in the same ballpark, but different leagues. OS X has been able to focus on efficiency for the past couple of revisions where Windows feels like it is still trying to hold together compatibility with all of the millions of drivers and making the GUI somewhat useable. Apple has rarely had to worry about that and so it can continue to advance the OS X GUI with a majority of its enterprise.
dukebound85
macrumors Core
well what if windows took over a linux distro and cultivated further and released it as windows...
not saying it will happen but a what if
Then it wouldn't be Windows. It would be Microsoft Linux.
Not to mention they'd charge an arm and a leg for it when most Linux distros are free.
BlakTornado
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I doubt it will be good but I probably wouldn't anyway.
After using Windows for all my life, I've learnt to detest it. I will never leave Mac. It's the combination of practicality and iCandy (lolol) that I've always wanted =]
After using Windows for all my life, I've learnt to detest it. I will never leave Mac. It's the combination of practicality and iCandy (lolol) that I've always wanted =]
I would not.
Reason being that I very, VERY strongly dislike MS as a company (predatory monopoly, among other things), so I would not support them even if their product was superior, so long as there is at least an alternative that is at least functional, which there is--even 10.3 is functional, and there's also Linux.
To put it another way, Microsoft has PERSONALLY cost me literally dozens of hours of completely wasted time in coding around the bugs in IE6--bugs that ONLY exist because they "won" the browser war so simply didn't care. Based entirely on that, I hate the company and their practices with such a passion that I wouldn't use their product as an OS even if the only alternative was the BeOS.
Add in all the other ills they've caused (buying Bungie? Then Rare? Leveraging their monopoly on Office to charge obscene amounts of money? Look at the percent profits that their office division charts on their annual reports--it's like 80%), and no way.
Reason being that I very, VERY strongly dislike MS as a company (predatory monopoly, among other things), so I would not support them even if their product was superior, so long as there is at least an alternative that is at least functional, which there is--even 10.3 is functional, and there's also Linux.
To put it another way, Microsoft has PERSONALLY cost me literally dozens of hours of completely wasted time in coding around the bugs in IE6--bugs that ONLY exist because they "won" the browser war so simply didn't care. Based entirely on that, I hate the company and their practices with such a passion that I wouldn't use their product as an OS even if the only alternative was the BeOS.
Add in all the other ills they've caused (buying Bungie? Then Rare? Leveraging their monopoly on Office to charge obscene amounts of money? Look at the percent profits that their office division charts on their annual reports--it's like 80%), and no way.
They might get the interface right, but $100 says it'll still be chuck full of spyware and tons of apps I don't want and can't seem to get rid of.
Nah.
Nah.
Windows has sucked for so long and they still got it wrong with Vista, why would I expect anything different with version 7.
Tallest Skil
macrumors P6
I am physically and psychologically incapable of making the logic jump required to comprehend this thread's title.
My first response after reading it was, "How?!" Not even a full 'how', just a "H-...", because I didn't think that that was the right response. I still can't think of one.
My first response after reading it was, "How?!" Not even a full 'how', just a "H-...", because I didn't think that that was the right response. I still can't think of one.
"Better" is different for everyone.
If I think it is better then of corse I would switch.
But the chance of me thinking that it is better are slim to none.
If I think it is better then of corse I would switch.
But the chance of me thinking that it is better are slim to none.
GoKyu
macrumors 65816
I agree. In order for Microsoft to have any chance of *really* having a better OS than Apple, they would need to do something revolutionary like Apple did from OS 9 to OS X.
Since MS likes to copy Apple so much, maybe they could base the OS on either FreeBSD or maybe even NetBSD (supposed to be even more robust...maybe for Windows Server edition....)
It's been a long time since I used this, but maybe the Litestep interface is still around (it's basically a clone of NeXTStep, and actually worked really well on Linux), and Microsoft could base it's GUI on that...talk about *really* following in Apple's footsteps....
But there's about a .00001% chance that they'd consider doing something like that, although having that UNIX core is a very *GOOD* thing, and MS should seriously consider it.
To which responses are you referring to exactly? Because responses like the following are really quite rational:
Recognizing that Windows would need to make a really big leap or some kind of drastic change to catch up to OS X isn't so much fanboyism as it is logic. Just like recognizing that Mac OS 9 would need a drastic overhaul to catch up to Windows several years ago.
Certainly people who would blindly stay with OS X no matter what are guilty, but most people here seem to have expressed preference for OS X's interface regardless of which is better--which isn't fanboyism, just preference. Also there are those who don't want to re-purchase all their software. There are a ton of Windows users for whom these are perfectly valid reasons to keep Windows, why not for OS X users to stay OS X users?
Deep down, admitting your OS is deeply flawed is the first step in curing it and making a revolutionary change. Apple did that, realizing its old Mac OS just wasn't cutting it anymore, and so they brought back Jobs and completely overhauled it. If Microsoft would realize the gaping wounds in Windows (legacy code, security flaws, the registry, even .NET itself to many people) and change them all, then there's no doubt Windows would be better for it, and perhaps even superior in many ways. But it's not fanboyism to expect that day not to come--not because Microsoft can't do it--but because Microsoft's business model is such that it, unfortunately for it, needs to support millions of businesses that are reliant on at least one of those flaws (old code...). Apple had a much easier time with this, because they had to support a much smaller user base. But if Microsoft could pull it off, it would be revolutionary for them.
But that's okay. I'll just assume you were referring to the blindly faithful posts, although they seemed to be in the minority anyway. 😉