I love OSX now, but didn't until they started copying many simple windows productivity features after snow leopard. I always felt like they did so many things differently for the sake of being different rather than truly being better, but they got beyond that mentality starting around Lion or so...I know a lot of long time Mac lovers will disagree, but that was my experience; a windows user that switched over at the end of the snow leopard era and wanted to love the Mac, but just couldn't at first...as far as windows 8/10...well I'll just say this preview is looking far more like what windows 8 should have been in the first place.
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always rooting for windows so here is hoping they righted the ship although later builds of 8 really werent that bad.
It's amazing how Apple Fans think it's ok to attack a persons personal appearance just because you don't like Microsoft.
For shame
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Who is including Longhorn and why? It was never released
It's just a space missing in his post, how about chillin.....
Enjoy your perfection that is OS nirvana! OS X, we get your passionate about it
I hope you realize that a lot of people refer to OS X, as X and not 10.
Indeed it was, but it still sucked. W98 was so much better and had a lot of things people complained were missing from or crap in W95.
Interestingly, W95's predecessor, Windows 3.1, was good.
well, here in 2014 where the rest of us are this isn't an issue anymore, so feel free to join us!
I love the direction that they are heading with in Win 10. Finally, I'll be willing to switch my Windows VM away from XP. I've used Vista, 7 & 8 on other machines since, but never found any true benefit to upgrade my VM on my Mac. Honestly, I think if Microsoft would continue to support XP I would remain with XP forever. (Side note: Looked it up, Win XP still has 24% market share on desktop/laptop usage.)
It's interesting to look back at the history of Windows.
*The above are my opinion, what do you think?
It's interesting to look back at the history of Windows.
3.11 - No complaints
85' - Good effort
89' - Good
ME - Sucked balls
XP - Excellent
Vista - Barely a Pass
7 - Very Good
8 - What was the point? Tried to do too many things and failed.
9 - The last version was so bad they needed to skip 9.
10 - Very promising
85' - Good effort
89' - Good
ME - Sucked balls
XP - Excellent
Vista - Barely a Pass
7 - Very Good
8 - What was the point? Tried to do too many things and failed.
9 - The last version was so bad they needed to skip 9.
10 - Very promising
*The above are my opinion, what do you think?
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Still the same lame arguement android users use against apple.
So guess what, that puts you in the lame user group
be it apple or android side. Each and every OS has pro and cons bro. To label another as terrible, is ignorance.
This is why I run a Hackintosh. I mainly game, so running a real mac is out of the question for me. Best of both worlds. And it gives me something to do with a spare drive I had laying around.
They were enterprise versions, I only listed the consumer ones. And they were both decent, interestingly.
XP was the coming together of the consumer and enterprise versions. Unfortunately the good/bad trend still continued. Maybe they should have kept the enterprise team and booted the consumer one.
+1. They always do that. 2000 was my favorite one for the time. I used 98 and definitely would label it as bad (worse than Vista), but then again I've never used ME. I don't know about 95, but people said it was good for the time.
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They were enterprise versions, I only listed the consumer ones. And they were both decent, interestingly.
XP was the coming together of the consumer and enterprise versions. Unfortunately the good/bad trend still continued. Maybe they should have kept the enterprise team and booted the consumer one.
2000 wasn't an enterprise-only version.
The fact that you can do this in 2014 isn't relevant. My point was: there are folks here quick to criticize MS's handling of full-screen apps yet are blind to OS X screwing up full-screen apps as well.
Each OS has its strengths and weaknesses. The constant biased bashing here is tiring. If folks want to criticize Windows (or anything else), they can...but they should at least apply consistent rationales and arguments. Don't criticize MS (or any other company for that matter) on a point that your own beloved company failed to address adequately as well.
Then again... I bet most of the folks on this forum are actual Apple newbies who don't have the historical reference that they should before apply said reasoning.
They are so terrible that they resemble ~90% market share worldwide. So 90% of the people in the world like terrible OS`?
I agree. I would never say the guy in the video looks like the ugly brother of the Penguin from Batman. Shame indeed. If anything, he looks like a modern-day version of a member from the band Flock of Seagulls.
When you join the workforce, your opinion will change
There is a large number of users on MR, that require windows on their macs to be productive. Be it boot camp or VM.
And yes, PCs are far superior when it comes to gaming if you into that.
Though I still go back to my origin statement, both Mac or PC have thier pros and cons for everyone.
Funny.
IT is my business. And yes, there are certain tasks which I keep windows 7 (and 8) vm's for. Don't get me wrong, I love PC's they keep me in the luxury I'm accustomed to. I just have no need to own one. The only PCs in my household are my kids gaming rigs.
I've never used Windows 8 since I graduated from high school before they updated to it (well, they still haven't). It sounds like what Apple did with the short-lived buttonless iPod Shuffle. The next version listed "buttons" as a feature.
Vista and 8 have been by far my favourite OSes on that side. 2000 was great at the time also, but lacked a lot of functionality. Vista was stylish and fast, while retaining the XP-style taskbar that was still so functional back then. 7 tried to do too much with transparency and forgot about various important things like consistency around the place. 8 stripped everything back, got rid of the rubbish Windows Live style apps and instead included streamlined 'modern' apps with such small feature sets that they just allowed one to get the job done.
10 looks like it is trying to coax those that feared 8 in by giving them a bit more 7 love. I tend to agree with the view that 8's more aggressive intro to 'modern apps' was necessary in order to get people to even vaguely care about that ecosystem, which they needed to push in order to have their own curated store - it is only a shame they did such an awful curation job with it in 8. However, now that people are at least used to having the modern interface around, we can go back to them giving more options. Charms if you want them, start screen if you want it, and so on. Otherwise, 10 does seem to be doing remarkably little in terms of going forwards!
2000 was the successor to NT. It was made for the corporate/enterprise/business workplace. Since it was so good (and ME so bad!), a lot of people ran it on their home computers.
I can`t help bit think that if I bootcamp this version of windows, it will run better that in any PC.