“Frankly, there’s no other way to say this: Microsoft is stupid and Apple is not,” Jim Lynch writes for ExtremeTech.
“If you take a look at the history of OS design by each company, it’s pretty clear why this is so. Microsoft has historically made an unreliable, ugly, and highly insecure operating system based on its own spaghetti/Swiss cheese code. This is no secret to anyone who has followed the industry or even used Windows on a daily basis. If you are a Windows users you MUST have spyware/virus/malware prevention software or, sooner or later, your machine is going to get nailed,” Lynch writes.
“It isn’t Microsoft bashing to say any of this, it’s just the truth for Windows users each day of their computing lives,” Lynch writes. “Apple, on the other hand, decided long ago to ditch their old operating system and build one that was Unix based. Why did this matter? Well as people have begun to notice, thanks to its Unix roots, Mac OS X is a hell of a lot more stable and secure than any version of Windows ever released. Apple didn’t make this choice by chance, they thought it through and knew exactly what they were doing and why.”
Lynch writes, “Mac users simply don’t live in the same inherently insecure and fearful universe that Microsoft, through its stupidity and bad programming, has inflicted on Windows users. The difference is night and day, and anyone who has ever switched from Windows over to Mac OS X (or Linux for that matter) knows how liberating it is once you realize that are free and safe from debilitating viruses, spyware, and malware that plague the Windows operating system.”
Lynch writes, “Microsoft is stupid and will never get security right, Apple already has… Smart computer users are abandoning Microsoft in droves and embracing Mac OS X and/or Linux.”
“And, thanks to Apple’s skill at elegant design, Mac OS X is also much easier on the eyes and far more intuitive than Windows 2000, XP, or even the deeply flawed Windows Vista (which was supposed to be Microsoft’s best shot at catching up to Mac OS X). All Microsoft had to do, in terms of design, was to copy Mac OS X, but they couldn’t even do that right. So they ended up with an ugly imitation of Mac OS X Tiger and then promptly fell even further behind after Apple released Mac OS X Leopard,” Lynch writes. “Instead of the simple elegance of Mac OS X, Vista looks like a Frankenstein OS…bolted together and looking more and more like a stumbling, walking corpse of an operating system… [It’s] a second-rate clone of Mac OS X…”
Much, much more in the full article here.
to Quanto the redacter:
That is stock market. Apple is treated (rightfully) as a growth company; Microsoft has nowhere to grow, therefore, less to lose in slowing economy.
To put it in another way, Microsoft’s share is now around $28. It has been there for the past five years (since about 2003). It broke out a bit last year (up to about $37). Meanwhile, Apple is now around $120. First time it touched this was less than 8 months ago (early July). This means, While Apple had retreated to its July highs, Microsoft went back to its highs of 2003.
Wow, the only thing missing from this is intellectually stimulating headline was the ending ‘nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah’!
Any more red meat to throw for the rabid cultists?
Not to mention that while that $120 was an all-time high in July, Microsoft’s $37 last December was nowhere near their all-time high of about $57 in the summer of – 2000!!! (almost eight years ago!). At the time, Apple was around $35.
@Predrag. I repeat: Apple has lost nearly 50% of its value in the last month, Microsoft has not….
It was over $200, now $120.
There are other growth stocks out there – few or none have bombed like Apple in recent weeks.
Plus Microsoft pays a dividend of 1.5% (not much for sure, but better than nothing).
Apple?
I own Apple stock, not Microsoft. The Steve blew it by not splitting the stock when it was above $150; plus he is hiding in his Apple fortress not coming out in public to address the tremendous fall of his company´s stock and try to boost the stock price or stem the fall.
Imagine if the the U.S. stock market fell as much as Apple stock and George Bush hid in the White House afraid to meet the press and the people. I think he would be accused of a lot of things. The Steve?
I agree Microsoft is stupid! But it’s Apple’s stock that has tanked over 40% in one month (currently at $119/share)! Hard to be excited with those numbers!!!
Funny how the comments on ExtremeTech are generally outraged that anyone could suggest Windows is worse than OSX.
Do those guys all live inside their Windows boxes to never see the real world?
Damn! Finally someone with the grapes to tell it as it is.
Yeah Microsoft are so stupid they rule the world.
‘Insecure and fearful universe…with deblitating viruses, spyware, and malware ‘? Sure if you’re too stupid (like most mac users) to install proper protection.
And as for the myth of Windows instability, I’ve been running Vista for five months now and there hasn’t been the hint of a crash from programs or system.
It’s also silky smooth and breathtakingly fast thanks to the 4GB Intel quad-core beast of a machine I was able to buy for the price of an ugly mid-range, criminally underspecified iMac.
“Has everyone here tried Vista? It truly is horrific”
Yes I have, and you are 100% correct. I encourage everyone to experience the suckiness that is Shitsa. Go to your local Pee-Cee shop and enjoy the bogged down goodness of Fista that runs on a Core 2 Duo machine like Leopard runs on a first generation G3.
Excellent SmallAndFlaccid! Good job!
Microsoft Vista is terrible. They steal from others. They lie. They cheat. They just suck. What else is there. We mac users are not ARROGANT. We just know the facts. YAHOO knows this too. This is why they are trying to run from the hostile take over of Microsoft!!!!
As long as software vendors put all the value into developing MS Windows Only software for the enterprise. Microsoft will retain a monopoly strangle hold on the enterprise PC OS Market.
With any luck the US Military and government along with the EU might slowly break Microsoft’s strangle hold and reduce their strong arm tactics. The US Army is moving from Windows to Linux, the US Navy started dumping Windows in 2005 form all combat systems, then in 2007 they moved all their internet systems from Windows to MacOS X, the US Navy plans to replace Windows with MacOS and Linux over the next 3 -5 years. The US Air Force is in the process of moving all their internet connected systems from Windows to Mac OS X and Linux this year and are looking at dumping all Windows Desktop, Air Traffic Control, internal network and combat systems by 2017.
The EU keeps putting pressure on Microsoft for antitrust violations and most EU Member states have adopted the ODF format as the standard office file format and not the OOXML format that MS Office based, this will put a big crimp into MS Office sales in the EU. Many Scandinavian EU Members have adopted the one third OS rule for all government entities. This rule requires that all government entities deploy no more one third of the deployed computer systems in one OS (so, no more then one third of the computer system can be Windows OS.) The rule of the one third OS came about after a Windows virus outbreak that crippled and closed most government offices (including some of the emergency services) for a few days to over a week in Sweden. To prevent this from ever happening again the government created the one third OS rules
As an interesting bit of trivial only one government agency was totally unaffected by the virus. The office of Tourism and Culture, all of their systems were MacOS X desktops and Linux Servers.
An interesting twist in the one third OS rule is that a large number of big companies their Home Offices in the EU Scandinavian region has said they are looking at or will adopt the one third OS rules approach to prevent the same types of systems failure.
What this will mean in the long run is software vendors will slowly be forced to take all of their software development into a truly cross platform direction and not just releasing Windows Only Versions and if they do a Mac OS X or Linux Version it will not just be the half ass attempt at a port that does have all the same features as the Windows version does.
Why spend the energy to force or even worry about Heterogeneous computing? The simple fact is Microsoft does not want heterogeneous computing. The more propitiatory, dependent and closed the more Microsoft likes it. MS Silverlight is the perfect example, Microsoft is blowing all kinds of smoke on it’s cross platform solution for dynamic web content delivery. It is not cross platform as the Silverlight back end only runs on a Windows Server. The Silverlight back end is so full of MS Propitiatory crap code that creating an implementation to run on Linux or the MacOS X just is not going to happen. While I think Silverlight in the end will prove to be flop. Microsoft will continue it just as they have continued many of their OS and Server flops hoping that it might be adopted some day. Like they have done with .Net…
According to the Windows expert in this office, whose hands have never been sullied by a Mac, Vista only uses 3.3GB of memory, max. It’s a bug. With a simple patch it can use 4GB.
I read the article. Nothing informative. Just some guy ranting.
I think 90% of MDN visitors know this stuff already.
Let’s move on to real “news”.
But it plays games. And that is all that matters, right Zune Tang?
@Moo Cow
Good for you. Now, go play your games.
Fat, lazy, and stupid is no way to go through life.
I guess MS thinks being a rich bully more than makes up for it.
MS will only lose weight if it is starved.
Wake up, enterprise!
“Not seeing that doesn’t help nobody…”
uh…ok.??..or not… what the hell are you trying to say?
I’d like to get a second opinion from Rubber and Glue. Just kidding. Seriously, Windows must die.
“what the hell are you trying to say?”
I speak multiple negatives. It means, “I’ve gone blind. Will someone please help me?”
MS can do exactly what Apple did: create a new OS and maintain compatibility with the old. They’ve already Virtual PC to emulate things. But let’s not speak so loud, MS might actually do something with their future OS.
Just to say: real italian spagetti “al dente” and real swiss cheese (not the fake and tateless one in US surfaces) are too delicious to be compared with M$’s activities!
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Is it possible that Microsoft has achieved the ultimate combination of stupidity and incompetence, at a level never before achieved by any corporation?
¡Sí!
ZuneTang is missing…
@bioness
You can easily configure your keyboard under System Preferences on OS X to swap the Ctrl and Cmd keys so that most keyboard shortcuts work the same on either Windows or OS X. I always do that since I’m constantly switching back-and-forth between systems and also because it’s simply much easier for me to use the Ctrl key, physically–maybe because I’m a touch typist.
@iamdj
Thanks for that excellent suggestion – I think I might just go and play a game… BECAUSE I CAN! Especially as my PC has not one but two Nvidia GeForce 8600GT cards in an SLI configuration plus five Logitech speakers – again all for the same cost as a heavily-chinned, over-priced, under-specced iMac. Isn’t life wonderful?
Windows is COMPLETE AND UTTER CRAP
I’ve been trying to fix my friends PC and it’s been a nightmare.
I don’t want to help people anymore, period.
They all can die for all I care, fsck them.
For instance, MSN Hotmail. You sign into Hotmail and instead of your mail displaying like you intended, there is some news and other crap in the way first. So you go into a limited preferences and say “just take me to my email” and it doesn’t work. You check the setting and they are the same. You try again it works, then again it doesn’t work. Then it works then it doesn’t.
ITS CRAZY!! MICROSOFT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN OUT TO THE FIELD AND PUT DOWN!!
If your using a PC, god help your sorry ass. Get a Mac, it’s the absolute TRUTH!!!