I grew up on windows since ’78 and purchased a macbook in ’07, I have some negative comments on Windows but I will admit that Win7 is the best Windows creation yet (IMO of course) I can’t say anything bad about Mac, most “crashes” (btw the word CRASH is used by people that don’t know how to operate a computer properly, (a word which has a broad numbers of definitions in the computing world) are without a doubt 99% operator’s error! I don’t have any problem with “crashes” A computer “tries” to do what the operator asks it too and when it’s not possible, it’s referred to as “crashed” I use the Macbook for all my important files because it’s absolutely stable and internet browsing because it’s virtually virus/spyware proof, if your house is on fire which computer will you grab on your way out the door? I’ll grab the Mac. The only rational reason I still use Windows is and don’t do a complete Mac swap-over is that I have more then 10k$ worth of Windows software and without a doubt some great ones for sure. I’m not going to bash Bill’s creation but if I wasn’t able too afford a Mac along with not knowing how to properly use it; I’d probably be bashing Mac as well. (Not really) I refuse and try not to act childish over senseless issues.

Ummmm…. YES It is possible with Windows 7, I have 7, and all you do is drag and drop, and its there. Windows 7 will ALWAYS be better than Apple’s OSX Leopard. And you can say “Well Vista was a crap os, why will 7 be any different?” Whoever does say that, I agree with you that Vista was crap, but 7 is he best os out there today. Just read these 2 articles about upgrading and Apples made up reasons why Macs are better than PCs:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1114

http://www.mac-sucks.com/switch_why.php

One addition I REALLY appreciate with Windows 7 is its ability to burn image files natively (though the options are limited). Programs on OS X always feel more mature than Windows apps, if only because of their customization to the OS.

The GUIs on both are beautiful – Windows 7 “feels” more refreshing, while Leopard gets a thumbs up for “clean consistent classiness”.

Good write-up! Right now I have Leopard 10.5.5 and Windows 7 (32-bit/64-bit) on my machine. Still debating on going 64-bit or not. Looking forward to tinkering with Snow Leopard!

Just thought you might like to know that you can run WoW under mac and that it runs beautifully. =) You should give it a shot. I’ve been running mac osx on a pc for about a year now. I’m about to actually buy a mac I love it so much. I play WoW on my hackintosh and I’m sure it’s even better on a real mac. =)

I’m actually looking forward to the final release so I can upgrade my XP machine.

I primarily use Windows at the moment (well, mainly for WoW anyway), but my development happens on OSX. At the moment, I don’t have much of a preference either way when it comes to Windows vs OSX, whichever gets the job done really. I also don’t see the registry as a disadvantage. The way I look at it, it’s not really that different to having separate configuration files in /etc, and is much better than the old .ini files of Windows 3.1

One thing to note in your article though. As of Leopard, OSX isn’t UNIX-like, it’s actually UNIX. It’s actually got certification now (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X – check the OS family in the sidebox)