M$ Haters.....Why?

[rocketpig]

Kurakasa said:

rocketpig said:

Kurakasa said:

Kyros said:

You have a choice. Period.

No I don't. I have the choice to use an Operating System where 50% of the applications I NEED for work, hobby, home do not work. I mean in 95% of all cases I cannot even buy the damn PC without Windows.

That's no choice.

You always have a choice. You can choose not to use those programs or use equivelant programs that run on linux. What applications you were talking about? I might be able to help you with your problem.

No, you don't always have a choice. Industry dictates program choice, not user.

Luckily, I'm in the design field so I was able to switch over to Macs a long time ago. Not that Apple doesn't piss me off on a continual basis but I can stand them a little more than I do Microsoft's software divisions.

Even then, I still need a Windows computer handy to code-check under IE. There's no way to be a professional in almost any field and not need access to a Microsoft-powered system now and again.

Well of course you have the choice, you can find another job. Duh? ;) But if you have to use windows for work, someone has chosen microsoft as their platform. Not like ms has forced them to use windows. They just find ms as the best, like they always are. ;)

You can run IE with mac, don't you? If not natively, then by wine.

Yes, the public did, by default. You're talking in abstracts now but in previous comments, you mentioned that we "have a choice" in using Windows or not. Well, I don't. I avoid it most of the time but there are still occasions where I'm forced to use it because it's the default PC platform for 95% of users out there.

PS. Wine doesn't do anything. You still need Windows on your computer to use it. What's the difference? MS gets their money either way. You may as well boot into Windows at that point and take advantage of running the programs natively.