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In article <44idnRV69d_5-KjNnZ2dnUVZ_vGdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>On 8/21/2012 6:30 PM, Richard Maher wrote:
>>
>> "Bob Koehler" <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message
>> news:NS41A2BWXAN5 at eisner.encompasserve.org...
>>> In article <succg9-03k2.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
>>> <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>>>>
>>>> A large problem is that for a long time VMS hasn't been getting new
>>>> features that are now standard on other operating systems.
>>>>
>>>> Off the top of my head, shortcomings posted recently here in comp.os.vms:
>>>>
>>>> o - no Unicode support
>>>> o - no automated patch installation system
>>>> o - no IPsec
>>>> o - limited LDAP, connectivity to Active Directory etc
>>>> o - woefully out of date ports of things like bash and Apache
>>>> o - PRODUCT INSTALL and related stuff could do with a major rethink
>>>
>>>    o - No patch of the month
>>>    o - No blue screens of death
>>>    o - No broken word processors
>>>    o - No word processors full of security holes
>>>    o - No priviledged, buggy, installs by unpriviledged users
>>>
>>>    But Apple is now larger than Microsoft was.  Which proves the
>>>    business case for quality software is not full of holes.  You can
>>>    write better software, charge more for it, and make money.
>>>
>>
>> Apple is a hardware company
>
>Oh?  Really?  Last time I looked Apple produced and sold both hardware 
>and software.
>
>The graphic arts people love the Mac.  The rest of the world doesn't
>give a  **it!

You need to get out more to see that things are moving away from the
WEENDOZE centric world.  Take a trek up my way and we will go to the
Freehold Raceway Mall which has both Apple and Micro$oft stores.  I
can show you first-hand what the world doesn't give **it about.

Yes, Mac has great tools for the arts; not just graphic arts but also
photophaphy, videography, audio/sound production and for the musician.
On WEENDOZE, you can make pie charts.

I like my Mac for its "arts" as well as for the fact that there's an
operating system there too.  I've used my Mac's Keynote for Bootcamp
presentations and, not to sound conceited, my presentation looked so
much better than any of those PowerPuke slides.  THere are business
packages for the Mac too.  My wife uses her Mac and TurboTax as just
one example.

There's just no reason to stay with WEENDOZE, its clunky interface,
its banal tools, its incoherent over GUI wizards for configuration,
its ridiculous menus, its puerile icon art, its eyesore font render-
ing, and its affinity for viruses and security issues.

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