Anonymous

Perth, AUS

Insurance

Mac OS X is definately more advanced than Windows. Apple make a much more advanced, not to mention easier to use OS than Redmond. As far as your comments about MS having a much more compilcated workload, yes they have to make sure their OS is optimized for AMD and Intels CPUs. I don't think it is fair to say that their workload is more complicated, i mean look at Linux. Take Debian for example: Debian have much less resources to work with than MS, yet they manage to get their OS not only running, but fast, stable and SECURE on 11, yes 11 different Architectures!! Microsoft only have to develop for ONE! (x86). And that seems a task they have a lot of difficulty with at that.
Even companies such as MandrakeSoft make Mandrake their OS compatible with lots of other architectures.
However I would agree with you one one thing, Yes I would like to see Steve Jobs as head of MS. He would scrap that bloated pig known as Windows and the Mac OS X would become a major player next to Linux in the market.
Longhorn is yet another *promise* from Microsoft. A promise to be "more secure, stable and faster than any Windows ever!" COME ON people how many times have we heard this before every MS release and again not been delivered on. WinFS sounds like a fine idea, however Apple have already implemented it in the next version of Mac OS "Tiger" and from what i've seen seems to do a much better job than Windows could ever do.
Take a look at the Longhorn delay. Delays, delays, delays. Maybe if Microsoft spent less time spreading propaganda, (which by the way is damaging their reputation) corrupting global protocol standards (MS Html/Java etc. anyone?) in order to force people to be locked in to their software so they pay renewal fees for licensing and generally causing global IT headaches they would be successful long term.

Kudos to MS for getting to where they are, their business practices have worked this long however, they are going to become a niche player in the market, 6-8 years it's looking like Microsoft are going to be on the outer, and because no one trusts MS they will never be on top ever again.