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X-Baz said:
The key difference is if you are under pressure to get your work done in a hurry, and you had a room full of experienced Windows-users and another room full of experienced Mac-users - the room full of Mac users would swear at their computers significantly less. That, more than anything is why the Mac is loved and Windows is tolerated.
What he said. When at work, ESPECIALLY when doing powerpoint presentations, I get really pissed! That G&* D*%$ program is always crashing, reformatting slides upon importing pictures, etc. I freakin' hate it.
2. To function in Windows, you have to learn the correct series of loopholes through which to jump to get the job done. On a Mac, the path to achieving your goal is clear, simple, and requires few steps.
3. In a continuation of #2, programs written for windows suck as bad as windows. The only exceptions, in my experience, are those from Adobe. They are cluttered with buttons, which are supposed to make jobs quicker, but most of the buttons are unfrequently used functions that should be in a menu system. Case in point: Roxio's easy CD creator software is for creating CDs, but there is no button to burn the cd. That's a function that should warrant it's own button, because that function is used nearly every time, yet it's burried under one of the menus in some not so obvious place. In their macintosh version of the software, Toast Ti, Burn is the only button. It just makes sense. There's no stupid **** to learn. You just get to work.
3. The interface sucks. Every time you have some kind of error, you have to read the entire dialog box to make some decision because the options are not verbose (e.g., Yes, No, Cancel) but on the Mac, the options are verbose (e.g., Save, Don't Save, Cancel). This slows down my work flow and annoys me simultaneously.
4. Continuation of #3. When multiple windows are open within an application, you may have multiple windows within a single window. Of course, Microsoft can't even maintain consistency here, as Excel and Powerpoint do this, but Word does not. So if I click the wrong close box, and I've forgotten to save my work on one of the documents, but I don't want to save work in another, a dialog box presents itself asking me to save, but I can't see which one I'm saving because it remains hidden in the background.
5. Continuation of #4. In Word, if many documents are open, but minimized in the task bar, maximizing one of them maximizes all of them. So I must minimize each of them again.
There are so many other reasons I hate Windows, but this is a start. Seriously, it pisses me off to no end. And it makes me even madder that Microsoft spends ten times the money on R&D and has a model to copy after (Mac OS) and still makes a ****** product. Microsoft works their ass off to dominate a market, often times using illegal practices, and buying out competetion and closing them down. Once a market is dominated, the product stops being advanced. It just sits there until there something comes along to threaten its position. Look at Internet Explorer. That pile of crap hasn't advanced at all since dominating the market (no tabs, pop-up blocking until sp2, etc.). And as a result of its domination, it has crushed web standards, making many pages, especially banking sites, rendered poorly or not rendered at all. I can't wait for the day when that company dies.
