Mac OS X market share arising
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Windows market share has reached 88% for the first time in some years, Mac is growing to 5+% What do you think about that? In my opinion Windows is an excellent OS ruined by companies who can't really program something decent. Mac is trying to limitate damages noob programmers could make Anyway a frequent reason I hear is "My mac needn't to be formatted, Windows Pcs do" or "Mac never get viruses, Windows always do" I do not totally agree with that.. I'd like to read some of your opinions
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4288 wrote:
Mac is trying to limitate damages noob programmers could make
"limitate"?
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Windows market share has reached 88% for the first time in some years, Mac is growing to 5+% What do you think about that? In my opinion Windows is an excellent OS ruined by companies who can't really program something decent. Mac is trying to limitate damages noob programmers could make Anyway a frequent reason I hear is "My mac needn't to be formatted, Windows Pcs do" or "Mac never get viruses, Windows always do" I do not totally agree with that.. I'd like to read some of your opinions
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Why do you need our help to form your prejudices? You ought to be able to misinterpret statistics of this type all by yourself, in different ways to suit the circumstances of the situation you are in at the time. They are both meaningful and meaningless as are the 'reasons' that you hear.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Why do you need our help to form your prejudices? You ought to be able to misinterpret statistics of this type all by yourself, in different ways to suit the circumstances of the situation you are in at the time. They are both meaningful and meaningless as are the 'reasons' that you hear.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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If you read again you'll exciting discover that the post title and my text lead to the question: "Will Mac OS X gain ground over Windows in the next years or won't it?"
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Depends on the target audience. If it's people who don't really need to do anything important, then yes. If it's for business purposes, then no, since no business with a brain will depend on a sole-source product. ;P
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If you read again you'll exciting discover that the post title and my text lead to the question: "Will Mac OS X gain ground over Windows in the next years or won't it?"
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4288 wrote:
"Will Mac OS X gain ground over Windows in the next years or won't it?"
and the correct answer is yes.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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If you read again you'll exciting discover that the post title and my text lead to the question: "Will Mac OS X gain ground over Windows in the next years or won't it?"
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I've read it again and regret to say that your OP does not in any way lead to the question
4288 wrote:
: "Will Mac OS X gain ground over Windows in the next years or won't it?"
If that is what you wanted to ask, why didn't you ask that question?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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4288 wrote:
What do you think about that?
1. Thank goodness for competition. 2. Next life, I'm going to be a lawyer.
4288 wrote:
In my opinion Windows is an excellent OS ruined by companies who can't really program something decent.
You mean, like Microsoft? I recently had someone regale me with all the bugs in Microsoft Office Word. He uses a Mac. ;) Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
I recently had someone regale me with all the bugs in Microsoft Office Word. He uses a Mac.
Oh yes. The apple word-processor is so much better than Word.
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4288 wrote:
Mac is trying to limitate damages noob programmers could make
"limitate"?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
"limitate"?
It's what bad impressionists do.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've read it again and regret to say that your OP does not in any way lead to the question
4288 wrote:
: "Will Mac OS X gain ground over Windows in the next years or won't it?"
If that is what you wanted to ask, why didn't you ask that question?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry Minute wrote:
why didn't you ask that question
Struggling with English, and a mind that is not mature enough to form a sensible question maybe!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Henry Minute wrote:
why didn't you ask that question
Struggling with English, and a mind that is not mature enough to form a sensible question maybe!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
One word misspelled and everything to crap. You're quite boring with your "overmature" minds (maybe time for retirement). Got it: can't get a decent answer here. I'll go stackoverflow where people don't kill their time by pissing off with grammar. Thanks to the few who have answered properly, the others are just silly.
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One word misspelled and everything to crap. You're quite boring with your "overmature" minds (maybe time for retirement). Got it: can't get a decent answer here. I'll go stackoverflow where people don't kill their time by pissing off with grammar. Thanks to the few who have answered properly, the others are just silly.
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4288 wrote:
One word misspelled and everything to crap
Actually I think it is your sentence structure that is the problem, spelling is a minor issue, you have a tendency to leave out words that would clarify your question.
I'll go [to] stackoverflow where people don't kill their time by pissing off [others] with grammar
Errors in your OP made it very difficult to read and that always opens you to humour/ridicule/grammar pedants. I just thought it was a silly subject that has been thrashed to death for the past 20 years.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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4288 wrote:
What do you think about that?
1. Thank goodness for competition. 2. Next life, I'm going to be a lawyer.
4288 wrote:
In my opinion Windows is an excellent OS ruined by companies who can't really program something decent.
You mean, like Microsoft? I recently had someone regale me with all the bugs in Microsoft Office Word. He uses a Mac. ;) Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
I recently had someone regale me with all the bugs in Microsoft Office Word. He uses a Mac.
So you were emailing with Christian?
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Windows market share has reached 88% for the first time in some years, Mac is growing to 5+% What do you think about that? In my opinion Windows is an excellent OS ruined by companies who can't really program something decent. Mac is trying to limitate damages noob programmers could make Anyway a frequent reason I hear is "My mac needn't to be formatted, Windows Pcs do" or "Mac never get viruses, Windows always do" I do not totally agree with that.. I'd like to read some of your opinions
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4288 wrote:
My mac needn't to be formatted, Windows Pcs do" or "Mac never get viruses, Windows always do"
Well, my Mac has had to be reformatted, twice, has applications crash, often, and I saw my first virus not so long ago and am looking to see the floodgates open soon. The Mac is a far better user experience, Windows 7 is a far safer, more mature, more resiliant OS. They both have their places, but if I want to run lots of mobile apps I'll choose an iPhone. If I want to ensure I can run any desktop app I could think of using, I'll use Windows.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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4288 wrote:
"Will Mac OS X gain ground over Windows in the next years or won't it?"
and the correct answer is yes.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
or will it be OS XI :confused:
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I use both Mac and Windows Machines, as well as Linux box at home, and that dismissive, cynical, self-aggrandising statement is exactly the kind of thing that Mac marketers love to point at as an indication of the unimimaginative way of thinking that led to Windows being seen as a second-rate OS. I think it boils down to whether or not you are the kind of person who gets excited by loads and loads of features, apps and configurability like you get in Windows, or a smaller number of features and a more locked-in arrangement in a restrained design like you get in OSX.
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Windows market share has reached 88% for the first time in some years, Mac is growing to 5+% What do you think about that? In my opinion Windows is an excellent OS ruined by companies who can't really program something decent. Mac is trying to limitate damages noob programmers could make Anyway a frequent reason I hear is "My mac needn't to be formatted, Windows Pcs do" or "Mac never get viruses, Windows always do" I do not totally agree with that.. I'd like to read some of your opinions
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All things Apple suck, period. Apple partners with no one and wants to keep everything to themselves. Microsoft partners with everyone and has been the best thing going for a long time. Shame everyone can't write bug free code, but who cares when we can blame MS for it ;P Apple tries to make itself look cool by making fun of the "fat geeky PC guy with glasses". Bullys like that always pissed me off. :mad: Apple sucks :thumbsdown:
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All things Apple suck, period. Apple partners with no one and wants to keep everything to themselves. Microsoft partners with everyone and has been the best thing going for a long time. Shame everyone can't write bug free code, but who cares when we can blame MS for it ;P Apple tries to make itself look cool by making fun of the "fat geeky PC guy with glasses". Bullys like that always pissed me off. :mad: Apple sucks :thumbsdown:
Agreed. The kind of elitist & snobbish behavior you find in the apple cult is also quite unparallelled anywhere. I often feel like it's all air. Remember their infamous "10 reasons to swtich" list? When I read that the first time, I was like "eum... weren't all these things allready present in windows for like a decade?" It's amazing. Apple rules at one thing only: making people think it is a good idea to spend 2x the money to buy crippled products in a nice jacket. For the price of their gloryfied media player, I can buy a quad core laptop. Go figure. I used to not care about them at all. But now they are gaining market share and spreading their dictatorial ideas and concepts into the general population. That's not a good thing for the industry or the consumer. Having said that, as long as they hard couple the hard with the soft, they will NEVER mean anything worthwhile in enterprise.
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Windows market share has reached 88% for the first time in some years, Mac is growing to 5+% What do you think about that? In my opinion Windows is an excellent OS ruined by companies who can't really program something decent. Mac is trying to limitate damages noob programmers could make Anyway a frequent reason I hear is "My mac needn't to be formatted, Windows Pcs do" or "Mac never get viruses, Windows always do" I do not totally agree with that.. I'd like to read some of your opinions
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I use both Mac and Windows Machines, as well as Linux box at home, and that dismissive, cynical, self-aggrandising statement is exactly the kind of thing that Mac marketers love to point at as an indication of the unimimaginative way of thinking that led to Windows being seen as a second-rate OS. I think it boils down to whether or not you are the kind of person who gets excited by loads and loads of features, apps and configurability like you get in Windows, or a smaller number of features and a more locked-in arrangement in a restrained design like you get in OSX.
Smokie, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. www.geticeberg.com http://melpadden.wordpress.com
I have several Macs at home that I started collecting after buying two computers with Vista on them. I have a 7 machine along with a couple of xp machines and the 2 Vista machines still in addition. I find that I have more features available that are the ones I want and are included with the OS. Take Preview for instance: It takes typically no less than 3 pieces of software in Windows for me to emulate the functionality of Preview in OSX. I like that the OSX answer to Remote Desktop is available on all machines rather than just those running Professional/Ultimate/Enterprise which is hardly included with a consumer machine. I don't find that OSX has loads less features or is more locked-in so much as they give a default that is less intrusive so people don't have to go hunt how to change something really annoying (like accidentally holding shift key for more than 5 seconds on a new install of XP/Vista/7, which happens sometimes when I'm thinking). There is definitely less 3rd party software available though, and finding ports of some open-source tools is nigh impossible. I will admit that I haven't learned Objective-C yet though and thus have left development off of my Macs.
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If you read again you'll exciting discover that the post title and my text lead to the question: "Will Mac OS X gain ground over Windows in the next years or won't it?"
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My bad... I was the one that skewed the statistics by buying multiple Macs. Ignore the increase in market share.