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Microsoft Says Windows 10 PCs 'Do More' Than Macs in Latest Ads
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Windows 10 still:
• Blue screens, despite apologists pretending it doesn't.
• Still has registry corruptions, despite apologists pretending it doesn't.
• Still corrupts user profiles, despite apologists pretending it doesn't.
• Still needs 3rd party antivirus, despite apologists pretending that built-in Windows Defender is all that's necessary.
And, while somebody here brought up that Apple messed up the Ethernet port and had some Kernel Panic problem, those are not normal issues with Macs.
On Windows 10, you still have to be a power user to some extent to keep the system clean. Normal, everyday users still pay me for malware they cannot explain.
• Blue screens, despite apologists pretending it doesn't.
• Still has registry corruptions, despite apologists pretending it doesn't.
• Still corrupts user profiles, despite apologists pretending it doesn't.
• Still needs 3rd party antivirus, despite apologists pretending that built-in Windows Defender is all that's necessary.
And, while somebody here brought up that Apple messed up the Ethernet port and had some Kernel Panic problem, those are not normal issues with Macs.
On Windows 10, you still have to be a power user to some extent to keep the system clean. Normal, everyday users still pay me for malware they cannot explain.
Oh, I know well about how to disable the ads. I just never believed it was really a thing until it happened to me.
I'm fine with the Store app showing ads on its tile because that's the function of the store, but to display ads on the first screen a user sees when signing into the computer? That's not just poor design, that's just tacky.
Windows 10 is an inconsistent mess. Half of the control panel and settings screens have been ported to the new Metro style and have new options relevant to Windows 10 but they are also missing many of the features of the old settings screens.
This means you then have to delve further into the system to find a whole second set of settings screens which do some of the things the new screens can't but also can't do some things the new screens can! Why are there two whole sets of control panel screens that only do half the job of the other???
Obviously despite starting back when Windows 8 launched MS still haven't finished converting all of their settings screens to the new system. They're stuck wasting memory with two lots of control panels and presenting an incoherent mess to the user.
We haven't even started on the problems with all the spying the OS does (apparently Edge stores everything you look at even in private mode). Windows 10 is a scruffy mess, still carrying code from 20 years ago. I barely use my PC these days and use my MacBook Pro/iPad Air 2 and iPhone 6 Plus whenever possible!
This means you then have to delve further into the system to find a whole second set of settings screens which do some of the things the new screens can't but also can't do some things the new screens can! Why are there two whole sets of control panel screens that only do half the job of the other???
Obviously despite starting back when Windows 8 launched MS still haven't finished converting all of their settings screens to the new system. They're stuck wasting memory with two lots of control panels and presenting an incoherent mess to the user.
We haven't even started on the problems with all the spying the OS does (apparently Edge stores everything you look at even in private mode). Windows 10 is a scruffy mess, still carrying code from 20 years ago. I barely use my PC these days and use my MacBook Pro/iPad Air 2 and iPhone 6 Plus whenever possible!
I got the surface pro 3 and I wanted it to work I really did. My wife is more familiar with windows and I needed a computer to shoot images into.
The first little bit was great with the Surface but now it is a frustrating mess.
One drive, which is empty, still thinks it is 100GB - there goes half the drive. Tech support is lost on the issue.
It is slow...very slow. the Geekbench score is less than my iMac 2009.
I always restart it before every session to make sure that it works when shooting tethered.
PS I have surface for sale
PSS I DO want a touch screen macbook pro.
The first little bit was great with the Surface but now it is a frustrating mess.
One drive, which is empty, still thinks it is 100GB - there goes half the drive. Tech support is lost on the issue.
It is slow...very slow. the Geekbench score is less than my iMac 2009.
I always restart it before every session to make sure that it works when shooting tethered.
PS I have surface for sale
PSS I DO want a touch screen macbook pro.
You mean this bug? I don't have it. No Firewall, no Spotify, OS X runs just fine. I don't feel the pain. Back to that commercial. Either Microsoft intentionally tried to be funny, but than I don't get it. What's so funny about bugs? Or they didn't saw a problem with the meaning of "bugs" in the context of computers. Than their marketing is completely deluded, which is entirely possible. Either way epic fail.
If you've got to read about a problem, you don't have a problem.
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vertsix,
I agree with everything you say above. Which is why it boggles my mind as to why Microsoft is so obsessed with comparing itself to Apple.
When Apple did its I'm a Mac/I'm a PC ads they were original and funny. When Microsoft tries to compare itself to Apple it just looks petty.
Seriously, Microsoft, just be you. Stop trying to be Apple.
A Cintiq? Really...
Apple designs computers for the masses. Not for the niche who are graphic artists. I'm sure they have designed dozens of touch-laptop engineering prototypes over the years in their design labs. But in the end have found that for most people (i.e., those who are not graphic artists), and for graphic artists as well, it's an awkward interface for a laptop which makes your arm sore and tired after a few minutes of use. My wife is a graphic artist and loves her iPad Pro and Pencil. She does not want that same capability on her MacBook Pro.
Do you really think Apple has not considered a touch laptop? Or that they're really not capable of producing one?
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I actually have to agree - I have no problem with bugs, but as soon as I saw the tarantula I knew a whole lot of people in my life wouldn't be able to watch the ads.
Which... doesn't seem like smart thinking.
again, this is clearly all about workflow. maybe your wife has different case-uses in mind that i do, but having a tired arm means you go back to the mouse for a while. time for a break, just like any painter would do when he couldn't hold it up to the easel any more.
i never said Apple was incapable, and in fact, there are cintiq companion hacks out there on youtube showing that OS X Yosemite is indeed touch cable when Mavericks was not. so i know that Apple has been playing with the notion behind the scenes, and they for whatever reason don't want to jump into that demographic just yet. which is frustrating for us 'niche' users (cintiqs are a hugely popular device that you run into all over the place if you're in our 'niche' group of visual/video/audio creatives - and i use 'niche' sarcastically here) - we're fully aware that Apple's version is coming. whether it's next year or in 5-6, there will be one. mark my words. so no amount of 'i don't get it' or 'how could anyone have a different workflow than mine and my friends, you must be niche' is going to change inevitability.
I believe the same words were uttered by barbers when they were told that bloodletting was inefficient for preventing disease or curing illnesses... "Take it like it is and accept it."
"The latest data from market research firm Gartner revealed that worldwide PC shipments from Lenovo, HP, Dell, Asus, and Acer continued to decline in the fourth quarter. Apple was the sole manufacturer that saw positive shipment growth in the quarter, based on sales of 5.7 million Macs."
If PowerPoint for the Mac can't do something the PC version can (and there's a few in this bucket) - then that's down to Microsoft. Do they deliberately want to keep school kids & teachers from getting things done with the equipment they have?
Speaking of bugs... the only pro/full release software on my Mac that crashes at all is from Microsoft. Not often, but often enough.
Microsoft could just focus on what their stuff enables folks to fix/accomplish/avoid, instead of looking like a petulant teenager...
If PowerPoint for the Mac can't do something the PC version can (and there's a few in this bucket) - then that's down to Microsoft. Do they deliberately want to keep school kids & teachers from getting things done with the equipment they have?
Speaking of bugs... the only pro/full release software on my Mac that crashes at all is from Microsoft. Not often, but often enough.
Microsoft could just focus on what their stuff enables folks to fix/accomplish/avoid, instead of looking like a petulant teenager...
MS have the upper hand right now the way i see it. Their software is well thought out, much better optimised, better looking and does have better features. Even the hardware is looking pretty good it has to be said.
<prepares for the fanboy onslaught>, but remember, i own macs, i run macs, i buy macs, I'm allowed an opinion and apple can either up their game or start to lose mind share.
<prepares for the fanboy onslaught>, but remember, i own macs, i run macs, i buy macs, I'm allowed an opinion and apple can either up their game or start to lose mind share.
Many new Windows boxes include one year of Office 365. Even some of the <$200 boxes where the cost of Office would be a big part of the device.
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Funny… for me it's about the opposite, or rather, I wish Apple's hardware offerings would be better – mainly when it comes to the desktop offerings. But I have a Mac Pro from 2010 now (also with a GTX 970) and that I still feels performs very well I think, even when gaming.
I don't really understand the complaint about ”control” in OS X versus Windows. What it it you have more freedom to do in Windows? But maybe you mean that OS X gives lesser hardware options (not counting Hackintosh)? That I (like I said) agree with
That's a parody right? Can you tell me where I can download the source code to Windows?
The Cintiq niche... yes, it is and does, in fact, conform to the term... has been around for years, and has yet to reach full-on graphic design mainstream. The proof is that there is no product line outside of the hacks you propose graphic professionals head to YouTube to produce.
Apple has never and will never conform to the populist mindset. My iPad Pro gives me superior capabilities than Cintiq ever did, and the iCloud features for accessing my work across multiple devices is amazing.
First of all... to me, showing bugs to promote any software is silly. Bugs and software are usually not a good thing. Also, your point... it would probably creep some people out... and third is the problem I have with it just being all around unrealistic.... a problem most technology advertising has trying to glamorize the technology and suggest that these two women are doing their own web site on a laptop with amazing great video and images. Not that it can't be done, but it's probably not very common.
Anyway.... at least Windows 10 is not the disaster of Win 8 or Vista... those two versions we're looking like MS had lost their minds.