[ziravan]

“On the other hand, while MS might not be as profitable, they do have the best and largest portfolio or products in the IT market, for corporate and consumers...

While MS might not have the “coolness” factor working for them as do Google and Apple, it is operating with a much more mature approach to being a major player in all sectors of the tech market.”

I’ve stuck with MS since 3.1 but Win8 is my breaking point. After 2 months of having a worthless computer, I finally broke down and bought my first IPad.

MS turned me into an Apple customer. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

[driftdiver]

Microsofts new online software has almost done me in. They charged me 10 what they should have and didn’t care. Did it four months in a row. Next to impossible to get out of the contract as well.

[adorno]

After 2 months of having a worthless computer, I finally broke down and bought my first IPad.

I highly doubt the veracity of your statement. If you were really a fan of Windows, then there is really nothing that was done with Windows 8 that could change your mind about it. Windows 8 is really Windows 7, but with many improvements and updates. If your complaint is about the new UI, then that's really nothing go complain about, since, all you need to do to get back into the "old" Windows 7 desktop, is to click on any of the older applications, which brings you into that older desktop interface. From there on, it's Windows 7, but with many improvements and greater speed. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to opt to get a simple iPad in lieu of a full-fledged OS in a full-fledged PC. In fact, even the Surface tablets and the tablets offered by the MS OEMs that use Windows 8, are many times better than any iPad, mini or regular.

Methinks that your just an Apple cultists that took the opportunity to bash MS, while touting your preference for Apple, and that switch from Windows is just a simple lie. But, even if you did switch to an iPad, there is nothing to be gained by that at all. Heck, even the Android tablets are better than the iPads.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! I remember the ‘good’ old days, when [FR nick deleted] used to *organize* Apple bashing posses, and when just pointing that out was — Moslem-style — condemned as an attack.