Luis Fernando Rocha

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since January 29, 2001

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January 29, 2001, on Macintosh to Windows NT Migration:
Many users shun away from Macs because they keep crashing, even though the problem is not necessarily with the Mac, but with the program they are trying to use. Granted some versions of the operating system were higly unstable, most have been great to work with. Consequently, when a program keeps crashing, to a regular user it only means the computer doesn't work. So the Mac gets a bad rep, because the third-party programmers did a poor job. Another thing: Microsoft's marketing power is immense. They push and shove, and "convice" user that their system is better. Just remember what they do: Ship now, fix it later. Does that make them better? They sell you crappy software and then make you work harder to install the fixes. And they are not small fixes, remember? They are BIG security holes. As for the person that said "How come Apple is not suing Microsoft for stealing their OS?" Well, they did, but a court decided MS was not guilty. As a refresher, when the Mac was to debut, Appl...