It was mature and stable and its Windows NT architecture was far in advance of the tired old classic MacOS that was Apple’s offering at the time. I can only think of one version of Windows that might have been a contender for the title of the world’s best operating system and that was Windows 2000. Sure, it doesn’t have the shear glut of software that Windows has, but the software is does have covers all the bases and is of a uniformly high quality. But the best? Get real, Paul! Mac OS X Leopard wipes the floor with Windows Vista or Windows XP, as more and more people are discovering. It has the most number of applications available for it, granted. Does anybody seriously think that Windows is the world’s best operating system? It’s the world’s most commercially successful OS, certainly. You’ve made a decision to use the world’s best operating system as the center of your computing experience, and I endorse and support that decision.” What I’m interested is products and technologies that affect you, the Windows user.
“I’m not interested in covering every single product that comes out of Redmond, and I am not a Microsoft fan-boy. Much of what Paul writes is balanced and fair, but sometimes he comes out with some complete tosh! The latest being this gem from his preview of Apple’s new MobileMe service: Although I now prefer Apple’s products, I occasionally visit his site because I’m still vaguely interested in the latest news from Microsoft.
