Parole information? Heh heh.

But seriously … yes, some of my information is stored on other servers. But I consider that to be “shared” information, if you will … I enter into contracts with companies that require this information to process part of my life, and I expect them to keep it secure. Any information that is purely personal, I keep with me, just as I don’t make copies of my house key and distribute them to my neighbors.

Thanks for your perspectives. I just thought I’d let you in on a Mac OS X secret that most people don’t know. The “green” button at the top of a Mac window isn’t a “maximize” button like it is in Windows. While the red and yellow buttons are “close” and “minimize”, the green button is actually a “fit” button. If you have a window open that is larger than the screen, pressing the green button will “fit” the window to your screen size.

For instance, when I drag a full-screened browser window from my 22 Inch monitor, into the display on my MacBook (running dual display), I’ll press the green button to get it to take up the correct amount of space. You might want to try very this approach BEFORE you unplug your monitor from your notebook.

What’s more, every Mac application, including Finder, has a “Window” option in the menu bar, which let’s you arrange your windows, with an option for “zoom in front.” Again, this option will fit the window to your screen.

So as you can see, Apple very much provides this “basic feature.” I think the only thing completely ridiculous is that users expect Mac OS X to work the same way Windows does, and don’t take the time to actually do a little research and find out how to fix their so-called “problem.”

Just because you don’t drive stick, doesn’t mean it’s ridiculous there is no automatic transmission.

You say the PC is good enough for simple tasks – but not complex tasks? Yet we are using programs like AutoCAD, 3dsmax, Maya, Photoshop, Premiere, the list goes on. Windows Server with Exchange is light years ahead of anything Apple has to offer. I think you are getting a little ahead of yourself. There are so many more powerful programs on the PC than the Mac. Not to mention games. The fastest graphics cards and processors can be found in PC boxes. Apple after all switched to Intel (Home of the PC).

The Windows 7 user experience is superior to Mac OS Leopard and Snow Leopard. I have Leopard on a Netbook with an external 22″ LCD screen. Recently I had to take the LCD offsite. I then discovered that many of the windows in Leopard were larger than the size of the Netbook screen. And since there is only one corner of the window that can be resized I could not even resize or fit the window to the size of the Netbook screen!! The part that I needed was not visible and I could not bring it into view by dragging the window around to the limits of the screen.

This is completely ridiculous on the part of Apple not to even provide this very basic feature. Windows and Linux can do this with ease. What’s the reason for preventing the user from maximizing or resizing windows more easily??

That being said I do like the disk utility and built in imaging functionality that is very easy and powerful.

I have respect for Apple and think the iPhone is awesome. But let’s just stay objective and realistic when discussing PCs, Macs, Windows 7 and Mac OS.
om resizing or maximizing windows in Mac OS more easily??

I’m also pretty sure you didn’t write your article in a Blackberry…

http://www.itbusiness.ca/mobile/mArticle.asp?id=58254

1st. The BlackBerry, while handy, doesn’t really let one type out a entire report and print it. I suppose someone could type it out on a BlackBerry, but I would pity their hands. Need I really go into more detail than this?

2nd. As The Var Guy says, 90% of people still use PC; therefore, who do the hackers and spammers namely target? My friends always argue that they’ll get a MAC OS simply because viruses that effect Windows can’t effect a MAC thanks to the coding. All the background junk which PC incorporates to protect its users makes the system performance seem a bit sluggish, but if 90% of the population shift to using MAC, who’s going to start getting the bulk of the malware?

As for tiny, hand-held devices (such as cell phones, iPods, or even electronic readers like the Amazon’s Kindle): I simply can’t see them replacing PC because they won’t be able to COMFORTABLY perform all the functions the users would want – not unless people are ok with severe arthritis.

While our users range from SMB employees to consumers across North America, every day we witness the figures TVG quoted, RE Windows holding 90% of the market.

While the population is aging, and the next big age cohort (gen y’s) are starting to hold a more predominant place in the market… there are still a tonne of users who have “grown up” and lived with Windows based products… users who may be slowly retiring but certainly aren’t leaving the market anytime soon (especially in technology years).

I agree that there will be a shift towards thin and mobile clients as economically speaking it just makes sense.

However these clients, just as PC’s do today, will need to be updated, tuned up and so forth to ensure reliable performance. I believe this theory will remain true for many more years… and that there is a lot more money to be made in doing so both in the consumer and SMB segments.

I suppose that this shift to the cloud, regardless of how unproven it is in terms of market dominance, reiterates IBM’s theory of computing from way before my time.