The windows platform lacks the tight integration of software products that should work harmoniously for years to come. A distance function is still a distance function regardless of its mathematical procedure to improve its result.
MS works in a deregulated marketplace without tight integration, harvested in parts from concepts larger firms outside of the business sector have been working since the 60's with the multics platform., which eventually diluted to unix and now linux.
MS releases products for you to endure that are clearly not ready yet, however you end up wasting time managing those issues. Im sure you wanted to manage those problems as they should have been issued on the box when you bought it.
The security and investment of the overall operating system brings no confidence in procuring more investment in establishing a platform that can only be relied on over a short term of years.
Win 98se win XP Vista 3 major changes, mac has made one universal change for the better.
Basically you have to buy more hardware each time someone at the core business dictates thats the cut off point to that hardware. Its obvious you can switch off features with other OS's and not have to invest more money in obvious technology grabbing hardware consumerism.
Its a joke to suggest a corporation that size cant add some if then variables for older machines.
Its proven with features in other Oses effectively.
The waist-full resources it consumes, the countless patches and fixes required to keep it running, not to mention the cut off point for technology that the core company keeps trying to push forward, when its clear a ten year old macintosh still adds another cpu to your current and todays render-farm power and can handle todays OSX which I have on 300 and 400 mhz machines that still work today and add more CPU power to my overall result.
MS has lost confidence in security and there is a time old tradition argument that the more people use it the more it will get exploited, however thats a minimalist view on the core of the operating system preventing such blatant holes of security that just dont exist on other platforms.
I speak from using three OSes concurrently for many years, Ive invested my career in knowing the faults of all and I know where my profit lies. I also manage about 20 large business I.T. sectors including finance companies and medical companies, so no Im not speaking from a pure arts background, I want something to work the way it was intended, I dont want a client to call me up with problems, the only ones that do are the windows business partners, the majority of the time.
Windows is a gaming platform that has a string hold but not for long.
Windows appears to be cheaper but the cost in the long run is a misnomer.