I rarely enter the OS debates (being Catholic I already have a religion) but I currently own a MacBook and a Dell laptop. I inherited the MacBook when my daughter went off to Africa. I use the MacBook on a regular basis as my home computer. It's a good machine, but it's just no light-years ahead of the Windows system. They both work fine and neither freeze.
Let's modernize our debate and go to iPhone vs. Blackberry. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Francis Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 8:53 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Interesting K7 review On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 06:57:50PM -0400, Adam Maas wrote: > > The irony there being the one thing MS gets consistently right is > Office, particularly Excel. Oh, they get a lot more than Office right. Visual Studio is hands down the best interactive development environment out there, and has been for the last decade or longer. The rest of the world still hasn't caught up with the functionality of the debugger I was using on Apollo workstations almost twenty years ago. Not that I'm a fan of Microsoft's business practices (although nowadays Apple is at least as bad, if not worse). But I respect the quality of their development tools, even if I use very little other than the basic compilers (and the Standard Template Library); MFC, for example, is an ugly attempt to force everybody into the Microsoft view of the world. Borland's OWL was a much cleaner abstraction, but look where that went. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
