Well, that would be your opinion, sir. There are, at least, 10 virus and trojan/worms out there aimed at macs as we type. Just google for them.
To put it bluntly, no apologies here, anyone who doesn't protect their box, no matter the OS, in these days, is an idiot. Anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-trojan, etc. protection is a must, even a child is aware of that.
And, BTW, ie7 is fantastic!
You speak of productivity. In the PC world, Microsoft brought it to the masses. Still does. Macs do what? Make cute little squiggles and fancy artwork used by pros. If it weren't for M$, mac would never have upgraded...how many different variations and OS's do they have now? I can run apps today on Win 2k, XP, and Vista, that were written 20 years ago for DOS and then Win3x, let's see you do that on OSX. LOL
You speak of better software. How's that? Mac's most popular office app is made by M$. I have many mac apps that OSX won't even recognize, let alone run 'em. Everything mac is an attempt to appear as advanced as M$.
You speak of reliability. I have 486's running Win 95 and 98, right along side of my Power Mac ( which, nowadays I only use for making and testing Filemaker db's) Wanna' guess which crashes more?
I'm not in love with bill, nor his company, but give the man his due, would ya? Without MS, millions of people would never have had the opportunity or ability to become as productive or successful as they are. Can you honestly say that about mac?
Please, get off the bash Micro$not campaign.
Would you really like to take M$ down a notch, in an honorable way? Good, then contribute to something like this:
http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html
:O)
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"There are, at least, 10 virus and trojan/worms out there aimed at macs as we type. Just google for them." Well, they aren't working. Over 20 million Mac OS X users are running with no special protection, and none are getting infected. A handful of Mac OS X users have downloaded a trojan horse, but that's about the only problem so far. Firewalls and anti-virus software are good things to have - but so far, Mac users have survived without them.
"And, BTW, ie7 is fantastic!"
I doubt it, but Safari and Firefox are excellent web browsers.
"Mac's most popular office app is made by M$."
Yes, Microsoft Office for Mac is available, and supposedly it's better than the version for Windows.
"I have many mac apps that OSX won't even recognize, let alone run 'em."
There is emulation software available for those old 68000-based apps, but I'm glad Apple isn't wasting their time trying to support obsolete software.
"Without MS, millions of people would never have had the opportunity or ability to become as productive or successful as they are. Can you honestly say that about mac?"
Absolutely yes.
"Please, get off the bash Micro$not campaign."
Everybody loves to bash Microsoft. It's a national pastime.