I wonder if it would be possible to make Microsoft bankrupt

[SamuelRSmith]

@mitsuhide:

The list of how Microsoft is better than Apple could not go on all day. The reason you put that was because you probably (I stress the word 'probably') couldn't think of anything else, anywho some debunking must go on:

"AppleMacintosh is gaining ground against MS because they are more reliable(dont crash etc)"

Not true, there are two main reasons that Apple are 'gaining' on Microsoft (and we're talking a couple of % a year, if that) are that a) It's cool and trendy too like Apple, b) It's cool and trendy to hate Microsoft.

Most people when picking up a Mac for the first time don't think 'I shall be picking up this Mac because it is reliable' they are picking up the Mac because 'The Apple iPod is great, these funny-shaped computers look cool, lets pick up this overpriced box of hardware'.

"dont go outdated as fast as PC's"

Well, there are a few reasons for this:

a) Little hardware manufacturer support
b) Little software support, thus not driving greater hardware support
c) Only one hardware manufacturer (or is it two, I heard one created a tablet Mac) create actual Macintosh systems. Most companies release two to three big revisions in hardware every year (estimation), and Apple follows this trend. However the number of companies making Windows PCs (btw - don't buy the PR-BS a Macintosh IS a PC) is vastly greater than the one/two companies making Mac systems. I like choices, and I like building more hardware.

Also, I'd like to point out that around 85% of the computing population don't upgrade their computer for atleast three-to-four years. All these hardware revisions don't exactly seem to make them all jump ship in fright now, does it?.

"more user friendly"

Well, Opinion != Fact (or as Soriku would say Opinion =/= Fact). But, lets put 95% of the computing population on first Windows and then a Mac OS, which one will come out on top as people being able to work their way around. Fact is, most businesses and schools around the world run Windows so people are going to learn their way with Windows whether it was the hardest OS to use on the market or not.

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Also, about the charity thing, we can all sit around and say what Bill Gates should and shouldn't be doing with HIS money, but at the end of the day it is HIS money, and whether Microsoft haters like it or not, he does use his money in charitable ways. He's given billions upon billions to charitys all over the world, he's set up his own charitable organisation, his will leaves almost all of his money to charity.

Also, in an out-of-the-box way, even if he was to spend all of his money 'selfishly' (which it wouldn't be, he worked to get that money (whether he works hard or not now is a different matter)) he would still be saving peoples lives, his money would be keeping hundreds of people at his favourite organisations employed (lets say his favourite food is McDonalds, he alone could keep the company afloat if he really loved it). These employees can now live and raise a family (lets not get into how much a McDonalds worker is paid here), and... dun Dun DUN.... donate some of their money to charity, they would be giving charitys Bill's hard earned and somewhat greasy money.