My question is this — Why do people put up with CRAPPY Microsoft Product and wait for them to improve it ( in essence making users the virtual guniea pigs for their OS) when they can switch to using say, Apple’s Computers instead ?
I’m continually amazed at how Microsoft is still the dominant OS after so many years of making users suffer when there are better alternatives out there...
For me, it's because you can't run Exchange on OSX, and there's no Apple or open source replacement for it that does what management and the users have come to expect from their emails system.
Other people may have other reasons, but they have reasons. Deal with it.
Some of us who used them in the past learned that Apple's attitude toward their customers was not one bit different than MS's. Recent IPhone events bear that out.
So, faced with two concerns, each as much a bastard as the other, people went with the larger installed base and lower priced open source architecture.
Public relations are not helped when, on many threads, someone who has a Windows question sooner or later gets a snarky and unhelpful "Get a Mac" ad from one of the True Believers...Not sayings yours was, as it was a reasonable question, but you have probably seen these all the time.
This serves to marginalize Mac users, fairly or not.
There is also a political issue: Al Gore is on Apple's BOD. But that's OK. We all financially support HIM already. Whether we want to or not.