(pMr)dEATHiNjUNE Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 But unfortunately approximately 89% of the users really don't know what they're doing. And if a software producer knows that, and their job is to make an OS, then they definitely missed something by exactly taking not care of this. It is not an X vs. Y discussion. Both companies have made and will make their mistakes. But this error goes to Microsoft, and it's a big one. you realize your statement here basically says that all OS makers have failed at their task and not just Microsoft right? each OS that anyone could throw into this discussion requires the user to figure out a a fair amount of things either by trial and error or from reading and/or teaching. it is really up to the user to get on the horse. yes we all know that Windows users find themselves in a world of hurt more frequently than Apple users but how is that MS's fault? how is it that those users, whom choose to walk themselves off the plank by clicking on a link that Google says might harm their computer, turn out to be justification for an ad campaign that implies that because i run Windows i suffer the same nightmares as Cletus the slack jawed yokel when in reality i do not? not to mention the fact that the "Windows" machine in these ads is simply a "PC" and such is what gets all of these nasty things. this completely disregards the fact that i (and others), as a PC user, might just not be running Windows at all (i mean who runs Red Hat, Ubuntu, Solaris, FreeBSD or any of those other OS's?!?). that's where these ads are misleading and utter bs. - Robert (PmR)DeathInJune Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142916-official-windows-is-unstable-prone-to-virus-infection/page/2/#findComment-1017528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGJulius Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I thought this was a forum for installing Mac OS X on non-apple hardware; not for bashing windows. -1 for front page Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142916-official-windows-is-unstable-prone-to-virus-infection/page/2/#findComment-1017555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 you realize your statement here basically says that all OS makers have failed at their task and not just Microsoft right? each OS that anyone could throw into this discussion requires the user to figure out a a fair amount of things either by trial and error or from reading and/or teaching. it is really up to the user to get on the horse. yes we all know that Windows users find themselves in a world of hurt more frequently than Apple users but how is it that MS's fault? Good point. Yes my perception may indeed be subjective here by admitting that Windows lacks some kind of useability. Maybe other people feel different about that. What I meant to say was that there have been security issues within Windows, that Microsoft easily could have avoided. Of course there are security holes in every OS but there are some in Windows that Microsoft literally labored. As this Forbes article about the Fprot Apple-Paradoxon points out, it has not only to do with marketshare. For me it seems like Redmond has been overconfident about their market position on the one side and underestimated how to deal with the average user on the other side. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142916-official-windows-is-unstable-prone-to-virus-infection/page/2/#findComment-1017565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
realityiswhere Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I said in an earlier post I did not want to see this thread turn into an OS vs. OS flame war, as we have an entire debates section for that. Apparently that's too much to ask. Topic closed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142916-official-windows-is-unstable-prone-to-virus-infection/page/2/#findComment-1017615 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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