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Just FYI - Windows 8 will be Unix based and with early development notes and etc - should turn out to be a very interesting development for Microsoft.

BTW - I love OSX


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See, here's what gets me.

You've come onto an Apple forum, and are moaning at having to read Apple biased posts. What else do you expect, and the truth is actually that to the "fanboy" Mac users you are nothing more than the very thing you claim to hate.
 
Just FYI - Windows 8 will be Unix based and with early development notes and etc - should turn out to be a very interesting development for Microsoft.

BTW - I love OSX


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Source? Where did you read Windows 8 would be Unix based? I doubt that very much, it will almost assuredly continue to use the NT kernel. Moving to a Unix kernel would affect a great deal of older programs from a compatibility standpoint.
 
Just FYI - Windows 8 will be Unix based and with early development notes and etc - should turn out to be a very interesting development for Microsoft.

BTW - I love OSX


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Windows 8 can run on ARM platforms.

Neither Windows nor OS X or Linux (distro) is better than each other. They all have their faults, and their positive attributes.

On a personal level, I've had several KPs with my first Mac (10.6, MBA 2010) so far. I very rarely had BSoDs on Windows 7. Do I call any stability issues? No, the operating environment is not the same, so I cannot make a conclusion from any simple assessment.
 
Windows 8 can run on ARM platforms.

Neither Windows nor OS X or Linux (distro) is better than each other. They all have their faults, and their positive attributes.

On a personal level, I've had several KPs with my first Mac (10.6, MBA 2010) so far. I very rarely had BSoDs on Windows 7. Do I call any stability issues? No, the operating environment is not the same, so I cannot make a conclusion from any simple assessment.
The last time I got a KP on Mac OS X was Snow Leopard, right when it first came out. Somewhat ironically, no major issues yet with the Lion developer preview.

And I've heard of Window 8 running on ARM, but it using a Unix kernel is new. And I very much doubt it.
 
The last time I got a KP on Mac OS X was Snow Leopard, right when it first came out. Somewhat ironically, no major issues yet with the Lion developer preview.

And I've heard of Window 8 running on ARM, but it using a Unix kernel is new. And I very much doubt it.

I never had heard that they'd be bringing Un*x into Windows. I doubt they would.
 
Lets been honest here people, both Mac OS and Windows are outdated by two decades I would say. File, Edit, View was cool back in late 80s and early 90s. Both Apple and Microsoft are too lazy to do any major improvements on top of the surface (interface) let alone under the hood. In other words they are polishing the turd.
 
Bookmark this post - when Windows 8 comes out - I'll wait for your response then. ;)


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It doesn't make sense for them to move to a Unix platform. Everything would need to be rewritten. Why would Microsoft dump their NT kernel?

I second a request, and call upon you to disclose your source of information.
 
Just FYI - Windows 8 will be Unix based and with early development notes and etc - should turn out to be a very interesting development for Microsoft.

BTW - I love OSX


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Doubtful at best on the UNIX thing
 
I don't get the whole 'MY OS IS BETTER THAN YOUR OS' thing.

It's really, very childish, like children in the playground squabbling over the most redundant of issues. It's almost as if people feel the need to tell themselves their OS is better just so they can justify their purchase in their own mind.

I use a Mac, doesn't mean I have to blind myself to the good things that are happening on other platforms.

Just my view on it all
 
OS X and Windows will never even come close to what IBM is doing in the world of buissness, servers and AIX.
 
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