[donmeaker]

So Vista has borrowed the Mac file storage system from 1995. Ooooooh, I am so impressed.

[Swordmaker]

According to this article, Microsoft Windows Vista out Macs the Mac... PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[PeteB570]

Because it has so many problems and needs so many patches?

[BunnySlippers]

Ack!

[antiRepublicrat]

Windows XP. Vista is considerably quicker

Now that would be a first time for Windows.

boy, are they easy to use and maintain

Now this is just getting ridiculous.

[LibFreeOrDie]

"...but, boy, are they easy to use and maintain."

What is he smoking?

[daviddennis]

This is the first time I've ever seen anyone say Windows computers are easy to maintain. I don't think anyone in corporate IT would agree with that.

Every time I see a Windows computer bought by a consumer it's riddled with spyware and virii, often hundreds of the silly things. And usually they are just about impossible to remove.

I know that Windows lovers will say that the anti-virus and anti-spyware software will take care of this, but the truth is that for anyone who isn't obsessive about actually using it, spyware takes you over.

Period.

I generally like the Economist, but I think perhaps they need to get a better tech columnist ...

D

[Ronin]

HAR!!!

Out Macs the Mac. When monkey's fly out of my butt, maybe.

How much did they have to pay this whore to write this trash?

I swear, this is the last PC I am ever going to buy. Just as soon as I can save up enough for a iMac, this thing is going into the trash.

[neb52]

I hope that HP and Dell allow the choice between XP and Vista for at least until this next summer. Otherwise it maybe pain to incorporate a Vista Workstation into an older network.

[SunkenCiv]

All told, the program comprises some 50m lines of computer code.

Wasn't that the amount estimated for SDI control? ;')

[martin_fierro]

But unlike Windows, downloading applications to run on Linux and ensuring all the necessary “libraries” are in place is most certainly not for novices.

Pffft.

[SlowBoat407]

Microsoft has been able to leverage cheap but powerful commodity hardware, to provide cost-effective software solutions.

What Mission Statement Generator has he latched onto?

[Golden Eagle]

Windows is affordable, more importantly compatible, and most importantly easily available. Mac purchasers who want what they feel is a superior product can overcome these obstacles, but most new computer buyers would rather not. I was thinking of buying a new Mac myself, until I got a new 15" HP Intel laptop with DVD-R for $499. Could have gotten 2 or maybe even 3 for the price of a Mac. Not that the Macs aren't great machines, they are, and a good decision for those that can afford them, but Windows is cheap and everywhere, and I have all sorts of gizmos and software I need to be compatible, actually makes my life easier sticking to what I already have.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

If the comparison in LOC between the linux distro and a windows OS is an invalid comparison (one is the kernel and a gazillion programs and the other is just the OS), then why make said comparison at all? The comparison is either valid or it's not.

Secondly I'm reading/posting this on a Fedora Core system - have a windows/linux machine that sit side by side at home - I use a KVM switch to toggle between them. Inevitably I find I'm toggled to linux as it is just more of a pleasure to use. It just works, is all. I can be root or user just according to which xterm I work from. With windows you have to log off your session and log back in. Windows, takes a "vacation" from time to time and nothing works for a while and then it comes back. Never happens with linux.