OneStat: Windows Continues to Dominate

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On top of the motivation issue, we have the "aircraft carrier" issue. Windows is like an aircraft carrier that takes ridiculous planning to even try to turn around. It might never sink, but it plods along at slow speed, weighted down by the burden of having to remain compatible with itself (since after all, compatibility with apps and hardware is basically its only virtue)."

If Windows is an aircraft carrier, what is OSX? A pontoon boat?

Come to think about it, that is a very good metaphor you have going on. Carriers have loads of bugs, pontoon boats don't have many at all. People would love to cause damage to a carrier (i.e. it has enemies), I don't know anyone who would dare hurt a dear old pontoon boat.

{Ignoring those ignoring bonch}

The really funny thing is that as Windows users cheer MS's dominance, they cheer its continued mediocrity. When you have 97 percent of the market, what's your incentive to really make it better? Apple can only survive by making better products. Without them, its toast. MS can dish out all the crap it wants (for windows and office) and they still make billions in profit off those products. Nice gig for MS, no doubt. But for consumers? Can you say, bend over?

On top of the motivation issue, we have the "aircraft carrier" issue. Windows is like an aircraft carrier that takes ridiculous planning to even try to turn around. It might never sink, but it plods along at slow speed, weighted down by the burden of having to remain compatible with itself (since after all, compatibility with apps and hardware is basically its only virtue).

"Have fun waiting until the next "patch Tuesday" to use your newly patched Microsoft security "fix". "

Lotsa, why do you have to sound like bonch to make a point?

Note the patch was not needed for IE7, which is my main browser. Only the buggy and unreliable IE 6 SP1 had issues.

Have fun waiting until the next "patch Tuesday" to use your newly patched Microsoft security "fix". Meanwhile, at least 3% of us can surf the web with no problem (from ZDNet):

"After people apply the MS06-042 update, rated 'critical' by Microsoft, IE may crash when certain Web sites are viewed. The problem affects IE 6 with Service Pack 1 on Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems, it said.

"Microsoft has identified an issue with the security update MS06-042," the company said in a statement Tuesday. It plans to re-release the bulletin and patch on Aug. 22 for all affected users.

"Others report running into problems when using other applications, including Microsoft's own customer relationship management, or CRM, tools."

Of the thousands of people that work at MS, I guess no one thought to test this with their own software. Unbelievable.