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I still have the second Mac I ever bought, a Power Mac 7300. It runs some games, and old teaching programs for our small children. Mostly, however, they use a very old G3 Beige Tower for games and teaching programs.
Don't get the wrong idea, I do work on PC's and have a couple of them lying around, running the latest version of XP. But the machines are over 8 years olds, and I was looking to replace them, probably with the latest iMac.
So imagine my surprise when Walter Mossberg, the perennial supporter of Mac OS X wrote:
After using pre-release versions of Windows 7for nine months, and intensively testing the final version for the past month on many different machines, I believe it is the best version of Windows Microsoft has produced. It's a boost to productivity and a pleasure to use. Despite a few drawbacks, I can heartily recommend Windows 7
Holy crap, not even close to April 1st, either.
And in case the point was crystal clear, Walt goes on to say:
In recent years, I, like many other reviewers, have argued that Apple's Mac OS X operating system is much better than Windows. That's no longer true. I still give the Mac OS a slight edge because it has a much easier and cheaper upgrade path; more built-in software programs; and far less vulnerability to viruses and other malicious software, which are overwhelmingly built to run on Windows.Now, however, it's much more of a toss-up between the two rivals. Windows 7
High praise for Windows 7
I have to mention that I like Windows 7. That Windows runs very smooth. Even the 64 bit version runs smooth. When Windows Vista came out a lot of programs wasn't adapted yet for 64bit. Even though 64bit was allready there when XP was the king. Now most prgrams has a 64bit version. Games also run better on Windows 7. It's almost like playing on XP. Nice work from MS after problem Vista. And best of all, you don't need a high end pc.
Michael,
You and I had opposite paths. I was an avid Mac fan and user. I bought an original Macintosh 128k machine in 1984 and used a Mac of one kind or another until 1996. I then switched over to Windows, persuaded by the practicalities of choice, of the great variety of software that was available on Windows' reasonable GUI interface that just wasn't available on my Mac.
Back then things looked grim for Apple as a company. Its share of OS was shrinking. Developers were jumping ship. And Microsoft was outflanking it. But I've learned since then to not count Apple and its brilliant founder out.