Apple isn’t the standard. MS is. Apple makes toys. They aren’t serious appliances except in the sense that they make great cameras and MP3 players which also operate as phones.
I have an android device because that’s the last viable option for the phone.
I had a blackberry for years. I was ready to leave it, so the FIRST PLACE I LOOKED was Windows. Surely, I’d be able to synch my phone to Outlook via a USB cable.
Nope. To synch, I had to upload all my information to the cloud. I couldn’t believe it.
Nothing beats Office. It’s a great product (2010) and doesn’t make you talk to the cloud.
Only recently did MS come up with smartphone versions that allowed synch. I’m using OneNote (amazing product) on the Samsung S4. It’s nice.
I know why XP had to die. Not quite sure why 7 had to die, and 8 was ill-conceived. 10’s been OK. My son had to roll back because his apps for saxophone hadn’t caught up. Edge is doughy - very doughy. I’m still using IE, and still curse when I’m forced to use Chrome.
Google and Apple are both evil. Can’t stand either one.
Haven’t experienced the ‘seamless’ synching between networked 10 computers yet.
What 10 is brilliant at is rejuvenating older computers. All previous versions of Windows had a sort of deprecation as time went on that dragged the computer to its knees. 10 cures that. Not an advertised feature, but it sure works.
All that syncing requires that you enable it...it’s not entirely automatic but is after to set up your home group and that key also comes into play, then the systems start to synch....if you have a lot of data like I do it takes a few days because the process runs in the background.
If I recall, I accessed it through the control panel.
10 rejuvenated my older 64 bit acer laptop which had become a bit of a dog...
I did have some issues with a 7 year old dell...but the other went just fine.
I tend to still use Firefox....edge is fast for me, but I only use it to read and surf news..
I think they need to look into the flash integration.
Chrome is similar in the way it does flash and the other video processes, and if I recall correctly has suffered some of the same issues I see in Edge. But I use all four on occasion....just find the best one for the job at hand..
I also have a Surface.