I don't think that Win7 (or the dreaded Vista, for that matter) is "a shell on a shell on a fix of an inferior OS." But that seems to have been true of Win XP, which worked pretty well nonetheless.
The problem with Windows is that (despite its source) it's relatively "democratic," being open to the use of all sorts of non-MS software, much of with isn't totally compatible with Windows. On the other had, the various versions of the Apple OS have been "authoritarian," severely restricting which software can be used. Some neutral computer expert should correct me if I'm wrong. The main attraction to me is that Win machines are less expensive than Apple ones and you can do everything with Win that can be done with a Mac. Part of the extra price of Macs and other Apple products seems to be due to successful marketing, which has also given Steve Jobs his demigod status. (And as Wozniac said on the Big Bang Theory: I still don't understand the turtlenecks.) By the way, I've never had any serious viruses on my Win machines. Spyware and similar, yes, but viruses no. Any minor viruses I've seen have been fixed by Norton or its free competitors. The latter are quite good On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Dan Scanlan <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 1, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > > > this is unfair to Windows. Windows suffers from viruses more than > > Apple OSes and other Unix spin-offs not because it represents an > > inferior OS but because Windows is more popular with users (who are > > admittedly mostly corporate) > > Apple routinely generates updates to its OS to ward off the multitude of > hackers who try to topple it. Because Windows' a shell on a shell on a fix > of an inferior OS built by a company that doesn't much care about end user > experience (except when Apple's advances forces it to release yet another > catch-up shell) Windows is a much easier target to mess with successfully. > "Windows is more popular with users" contradicts user satisfaction surveys. > In another year or so Windows will be all but forgotten. > > Dan > (OS virus free since 1984) > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / It's time to Occupy the New Year!
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