Personal experience (was: Re: Good advice! (was: Re: [Ti] Windows compatable))

[Glenn L. Austin]

On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Chris Olson wrote:

> On Jan 17, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:
>
>> That said, does anyone know of any experiments done in a proper  
>> scientific way (with double blind studies, etc., etc.) to find out  
>> which is the more reliable OS - Mac OS or Windows?
>
> No studies, but literally millions of deployments speaks for  
> itself.  Windows is the hands down winner.  Windows application  
> developers have been able to deploy solutions and move from  
> revision to revision pretty much seamlessly over the years, with  
> only minor glitches aka Windows XP SP2.
>
> Apple, OTOH has jumped ship too many times.  The transition from  
> Apple to Mac made all Apple software obsolete.  Then we went from  
> 68K to PPC, then OS 9 to OS X, then PPC to Intel, each time adding  
> complexity, development cost, and alienating legacy users and  
> developers.
>
> Reliability in Enterprise and business has way factors than just  
> technical excellence.

Bitter, are we?

The only thing that keeps Windows being deployed more -- is that  
Windows is deployed more (well, that and the fact that Microsoft's  
training materials have tremendous amounts of misinformation about  
anything non-Microsoft).

That being said, yes there have been tests done of which platform  
more people prefer for their own use, given a choice of the same  
software and hardware for each.  I'll give you three guesses as to  
which platform was preferred more, and as a hint, the preferred  
platform's operating system was not from a company in Redmond...   
(the users who didn't pick the "preferred" platform did so because  
their chosen platform ran software that their job bought for them to  
use at work, but that they installed at home too)

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