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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 869791" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>Microsoft is not the enemy and they aren't all bad. I actually like certain products they make. In fact, they make quite a few good products including the Xbox 360 and Visual Studio. Office for Windows is a solid product and is by far the best office suite for Windows. I'm also starting to like Silverlight - from my perspective, it has the capabilities of Flash with 1/10 the resource consumption. From where I'm standing, MS has outdone Adobe in terms of developing a rich content browser plugin (what do you call these?). I'm sure many will disagree with this position but you can't honestly say that all of their products are bad. You may be asking why I own a Mac then? Well, I dislike Windows and I'm a *nix nerd at heart <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</p><p></p><p>You are no being any more "blasphemous" than someone who loves Microsoft and owns an iPod. Insinuating a level of blasphemy implies that you have to buy all Apple or all MS. You don't have to buy everything from one company - you should buy what suits you best. For instance, Apple's cinema displays would probably be the last monitor I would buy simply because I can get a monitor that is suitable for my needs at a much cheaper price. Buy what you need, not what you feel you need to buy because of an artificially created sense of allegiance to a certain brand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 869791, member: 71075"] Microsoft is not the enemy and they aren't all bad. I actually like certain products they make. In fact, they make quite a few good products including the Xbox 360 and Visual Studio. Office for Windows is a solid product and is by far the best office suite for Windows. I'm also starting to like Silverlight - from my perspective, it has the capabilities of Flash with 1/10 the resource consumption. From where I'm standing, MS has outdone Adobe in terms of developing a rich content browser plugin (what do you call these?). I'm sure many will disagree with this position but you can't honestly say that all of their products are bad. You may be asking why I own a Mac then? Well, I dislike Windows and I'm a *nix nerd at heart :). You are no being any more "blasphemous" than someone who loves Microsoft and owns an iPod. Insinuating a level of blasphemy implies that you have to buy all Apple or all MS. You don't have to buy everything from one company - you should buy what suits you best. For instance, Apple's cinema displays would probably be the last monitor I would buy simply because I can get a monitor that is suitable for my needs at a much cheaper price. Buy what you need, not what you feel you need to buy because of an artificially created sense of allegiance to a certain brand. [/QUOTE]
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