XENOPHONZ opened this issue on Oct 07, 2007 · 71 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Tue, 23 October 2007 at 4:38 PM
Oh, I'm not a Mac partisan by any stretch of the imagination -- I'm not even a Mac user. I recognize that it's a fine system, but I also recognize that it represents a tiny element of the overall PC market (sorry Mac folks -- but that's just the way that it is).
For my own work and for the sake of compatibility -- I pretty much have to stick with MS. By no means am I saying that I agree with everything that Microsoft does: I'm just recognizing the practical realities of the situation. I don't either love or hate Microsoft. The company is just a toolmaker, and it happens to dominate the market. So.......when it comes to PC's, if you need to have near 100% compatibility with 90-some-odd percent (or more) of the rest of the world: then Microsoft it is.
It is what it is. I can't go some other way without a lot of unnecessary extra effort & work-arounds on my part. Why should I spend many hours fighting, trying to get something to work in Linux, when I can just pop the program installation into my MS machine and away I go? The only reason that I can see is an emotional dislike of Microsoft -- and that's never been a good reason to do something or to not do something when it comes to PC's.