Lots of people bad mouth it, so I wonder how many do not use Microsoft OS and apps at all. Please vote
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Poll about Microsoft
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Poll about Microsoft
59Do not use Microsoft applications or OS EVER. Not at all.3.39%2use them sometimes, but mostly I'm non-Microsoft25.42%15pretty much use all MS stuff. Vista, Office you name it I use it.61.02%36Love AndyW10.17%6The poll is expired.
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But not out of choice, rather necessity.
Gotta hand it to the Gatester though, although his products are generally crap, an excellent commercial strategy.
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MS all the way
For my recent new computer purchase I seriously considered getting a MAC to make music on but then I thought..... naaahh"Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon MuskComment
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Is this home or work?"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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MS at work.
MAC OSX and linux at home.
I like and dislike *nix and windoze os's for different reasons.
MS have done some great stuff. Visual Studio 2008 is the best dev environment since sliced bread and generally the stuff they've done for productivity is spot on. MS is also the reason why I have work. It doesn't stop me moaning every now and then though.Comment
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They pretty much made computers accessible to the general public!
If they released product that works every time and all the time, that would be wonderful.
However they don't'elf and safety guruComment
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I wanted to vote for "pretty much use all MS stuff. Vista, Office you name it I use it", but like a lot of people I don't and won't use Vista.
So I went for Andyw.Comment
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Originally posted by thelace View PostThey pretty much made computers accessible to the general public!
If they released product that works every time and all the time, that would be wonderful.
However they don't"Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon MuskComment
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Originally posted by thelace View PostIf they released product that works every time and all the time, that would be wonderful.
However they don'tComment
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Originally posted by dang65 View PostAs Joseph Heller said when told he had never written anything else as good as Catch-22: "Who has?"Comment
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