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yea, all I do is run two sophisticated business operations...

The businesses might be sophisticated, but, your knowledge and usage of Windows systems is, apparently, very lacking, which would make you a very unsophisticated computer user.

I also continue to own multiple self-destructing windows computers, including servers at these businesses.

If your problems were to be replicated throughout the business sector, then, nobody would ever be able to get anything done, and Windows (server or otherwise), would have been terminated ages ago. But, Windows continues churning along, increasing its server market share, and being used in businesses of all sizes. Therefore, the only conclusion that can be drawn from your "experiences" is that, you're very incompetent with Windows computers, or you're simply lying out of your rear, like all the Apple fanboys are best known for.

The only computers I have with problems are my windows computers - running a variety of windows versions. Each week, a different windows computer, operated by a different employee, is seeking technical support and taking time away from our core business operations. Fact.

Fact? I call it "Bull!".

Like I said, you're either very incompetent with Windows computers, or your whole staff is incompetent, or your training/education and theirs wasn't worth a "chit".

Don’t kid yourself, as Windows operates, it self-destructs. I’ve actually had Dell representatives tell me that it was “time to reinstall windows, because it had been more than a year.”

You haven't sounded believable from the start, so, why would I believe anything you have to say at all?

If a Dell rep actually said anything as you state, then, the Dell rep is just as incompetent as you, and he needs to be fired, and you need to get someone to run your IT operations, since, you seem even more incompetent that that Dell rep.

Macs are not Windows PCs, and it does not have to compensate for problems from all of the OEMs and from the components providers, and from the drivers providers and from the applications providers. What you get with a Mac is a simple version of an OS, with parts hand-chosen by Apple, and the only drivers needed being those that the simplified Macs and OS require. Windows has to make sure that, with parts being supplied by hundreds (even thousands) of suppliers, and PCs being constructed by a couple dozen OEMs, and motherboards coming from multiple suppliers, and a host of many other issues, and so, what you're gonna get is an OS which is having to compensate for and fix the issues which are not of Windows/MS's making. With Macs, you get one maker, with a few components, which makes for a much simpler OS. Along with the much simpler OS, comes a marketplace which is not very enthusiastic about running their critical enterprise operations with Macs or any Mac server. The business sector is a very limited market for Macs, and there is even the rumor/expectation that, Macs on the desktop, will be gone in a year or 2, and shortly thereafter, OSX will be supporting just the mobile market, where iOS and OSX will be merged into just one OS. Apparently, you're not even aware of those reports, which, if you had been, you would be looking to start on the road towards something better (hint: Windows/Windows servers), or, perhaps, even Linux. But, you can continue to try running your business on an OS designed for toys, which iOS/OSX will certainly be.

Look ahead, and don't be fooled by what you perceive as facts.

Use whatever you wish, but I’ve been set free - except for those d*mned windows machines. If they don’t get malware, a virus, etc., they are self-destructing as they operate.

Those are exactly the same lines of BS that can always be heard on tech blogs, and always from the fanatical/fanboyish Apple lovers. I've heard your BS arguments thousands of times, and no matter from whom, it's always the same lines of bull.

Get ready, because, like it or not, you're going to have to switch to Windows sometime in the future, or at worst, Linux.

BTW, somebody with a fanatical love for a company (Apple), should not be running the IT department of any company, and neither should a manager/executive/owner of that company. The worst decisions ever made with IT is by those that come into the operation with blindfolds and predefined and unbending ideas, and are not about to pay attention to what might be better decisions for their companies.

“Get ready, because, like it or not, you’re going to have to switch to Windows sometime in the future, or at worst, Linux.”

I don’t think you understood that my businesses are full of windows machines. They are the ones I pay to have an IT company support. It is the two Macs that never have problems. At least since we got them 5 years ago. Will they get a virus someday? Probably. Will they get malware someday? Probably. Will they fail to install a system correctly on the first shot some day? Probably. Just hasn’t happened yet in 5 years.

So, despite all your blather, my statement remains that I spend all the IT budget on two sophisticated business supporting the windows machines.

As for your predictions of the future, I’ll wait and see.

If a Dell rep actually said anything as you state, then, the Dell rep is just as incompetent as you, and he needs to be fired

The need to regularly reinstall Windows is a very well-known one in the IT world. It is to such an extent that in an enterprise environment, if you have anything more than a minor known problem with your Windows system, they will just reimage the machine. They won't waste time trying to sort out what got mucked up in Windows' innards over time. Many a time I've heard PC techs say "Oh, you've had that same system for two years? No wonder you're having problems. Let me reimage it."

Macs are not Windows PCs, and it does not have to compensate for problems from all of the OEMs and from the components providers, and from the drivers providers and from the applications providers.

That is one of the advantages, hardware and software from the same company. This is especially important with support, because if you call Dell or HP, they'll try to blame it on Microsoft. Then you call Microsoft and they'll blame it on the OEM. With Apple, you have one responsible party.

what you're gonna get is an OS which is having to compensate for and fix the issues which are not of Windows/MS's making

However, a relatively small number of Windows issues are hardware or driver related.

But, you can continue to try running your business on an OS designed for toys, which iOS/OSX will certainly be.

Someone forgot that OS X is certified UNIX, a BSD variant to be exact. In certified UNIX land, OS X has three companions: HP-UX, AIX and Solaris. Toy?

The worst decisions ever made with IT is by those that come into the operation with blindfolds and predefined and unbending ideas, and are not about to pay attention to what might be better decisions for their companies.

And you wonder why Windows is everywhere? You just answered your own question.