I could understand some of these issues occuring, mainly drivers and hardware issues, only if you have old hardware. Even from Build 7000 to the RC build I've had 0 issues with Win 7, on install it installed every hardware driver I needed, from my graphics card, to my motherboard, even to my WLAN card.
I did however also install the RC on a 6 year old system, and I had to search for a few drivers.
As for your argument about spyware, virus's etc, ya its a no brainer it's still going to get it, mainly because most of the world uses windows, and if you're making a virus, wouldn't you want to target the biggest userbase? I can gurantee you if OSX and Windows flipped and OSX was the OS that most people in the world used, it would have the same virus and spyware issues, don't kid yourself now.
So far on my system I've had 0 issues pretty much, and I use my Win 7 system for everything, from decoding to gaming. The only small issue Ive expierenced so far is I cant alt-tab while playing Fallout 3, omg I might as well install tihs now!!! /sarcasm
Wow, that explains everything, maybe try installing Win 7 on somthing other than a dinosaur dell perhaps?
You assume a lot. Who said my daughters computer was old? Where did you hear this? Certainly not from me.
I bought the computer last July. It is a Dell Inspiron 531 Dual-Core machine. Plenty fast enough. Not even a year old.
It would shut down after being on for about 20 minutes, the BSOD. It would not connect to the internet, it would not recognize my being logged in as a Admin. It would prompt me to log on as a Admin, even thought I was already logged on as one.
You barking up the wrong tree here. Your not going to a hassle free machine with a OS that was designed to work with multiple hardware manufactures, there will always be headaches. As with the other Windows machines I have used over the years, Windows is no different, it has it's shares of problems.
More than OSX, that is a fact. For the simple fact that OSX is better designed, more powerful and more importantly runs on hardware that it is designed to run on.
You're all happy now since you have no issues, .....yet. Does that even tell you something, that your happy you don't have problems? Think about that for a moment.
And the argument that OSX is not as widespread and it's marketshare protects it is nonsense. You, don't kid youself, as it seems you already have. Like I said you're barking up the wrong tree and it seems the jokes on you.
There is only one reason and one reason alone as to why there have been no known viruses to date for Mac OS X... because it is amongst the most inherently secure commercially-available operating systems on the market.
Can you say"UNIX". Look it up. You will get my meaning. Here I will help you.
"Unix operating systems are widely used in both servers and workstations"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
Microsoft vs UNIX.
http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/security/uw.html
The whole "security through obscurity" argument is nothing but a cop-out for those who either can't understand why or simply refuse to admit that the Mac is a very secure platform.
Apple is enjoying its largest market share since the 1980s... there are millions and millions of Macs in service and on the web, so it's hardly obscure. If one honestly thinks that it's simply not "worth it" to try and exploit damn near 1/10th of a pie that's as big as the computer market, then they're delusional.
Even if that remotely held the tiniest bit of water, then how does one explain the fact that the Classic Mac OS had several (relatively speaking) well known viruses/attacks, especially when their market share was much lower in those days?
Even more telling is the existence of hundreds of different kinds of malware out there which are written for linux... Linux is used by what - 1% of the market?
The argument that there's nothing worthwhile to be found on Macs does stack up well either. It is fairly common knowledge that Mac users, on average have both higher incomes and higher disposable incomes, especially due to their perception as nothing more than a high-end "luxury" item. Mac users store financial information on their computers just like everyone else... So if one of every ten computers is owned by someone who may very well have higher than average assets, then how is that not an attractive target?
The current Mac OS must be the "holy grail" of hackers, et al. It is impossible to fathom that untold numbers of hackers simply give the Mac a free pass and leave it and its users to their own devices totally unscathed.
OS X has been on the market now for almost 8 years... In terms of computers that's eons, yet nothing has gotten out into the wild - even despite the fact that there have been full-fledged contests held to exploit the system.
I'm not so naive to think that there might never be any kind of malicious code released to exploit the Mac, but neither am I so naive to think that there hasn't been countless numbers of people out there who have tried unsuccessfully to do so over almost an entire decade's time.
Also, Apple's dock is a travesty compared to the new W7 taskbar. The functionality of that thing is amazing. I am guessing quite a few people will prefer it over OSX. And where is my AVCHD support Apple? How come I can open raw MTS files in Windows Media Player and they look GORGEOUS, but they really don't work at all in OSX? I have to transcode everything? What a disaster. Especially after they tell everyone usb cameras are the future! Ok so...can I not use my new usb camera with it?? (I am not the only one to mention this "little" problem).
