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with all the respect for apple's design in terms of materials, form factor, and classy look, i still believe microsoft is doing a better job of addressing users' needs.
first of all, windows is very customizable. you can change its look not only by changing the wallpaper, but also by changing the desktop and toolbar font sizes. in addition you can move the toolbar to any side of the desktop. the fonts in mac os x cannot be customized. they look great, but you cannot change their sizes without changing the resolution of the screen. even if there is a way to do it and i don't know it, it means that most people don't which is a usability disadvantage for mac.
second of all, windows is more universally usable. it can run on almost any pc from manufacturers all around the world. this means a wider variety of softwares and games.
most importantly, i prefer the mouse movement on windows a lot more. some people tell me to change the mouse speed on mac os x to make it feel like mouse in windows. you cannot believe how many times i have tried that. it just doesn't work! i believe there are more parameters to tune than are available in either windows or mac to customize mouse movement. i spend very much time on my computer and i use the mouse a lot. a mouse that doesn't move the way i am used to frustrates me to hell.
the fact that apple's advertisement is only based on attacking the software developer by talking about the disadvantages of the hardware builder proves them not to be very transparent. they attack pc makers in an ambiguous way that doesn't even define pc makers and then confuse the audience with an image of microsoft (probably because microsoft windows is pcs most important thing in common). pcs are dell, toshiba, sony, and ibm. you cannot combine the cons of all to compare every single one of them with apple to show microsoft defeated. in fact, windows runs on all of them and it gives the consumer the option to choose between good customer support, endurance, great sound and graphic, customizability, and low cost which is not the case with mac os.
i have a mac and i have both os x and windows xp on it. by the way, i rarely log into mac
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