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Story: Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008

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From those who have watched Windows users twist in the wind for years and daily use reliable, safe, functional Apple computers, this ever repeating cycle looks ludicrous.

For the Windows user the best one can hope for is that this time Microsoft isn't lying, maybe Vista is really better. Every time you took this leap of faith in the past you were duped and at the next upgrade cycle Microsoft admits the last version was crap, when the new kludge is ready to be foisted on you and your money sucked up.

If all goes well you will get a few features that may work some times with Microsoft only stuff and at a horrendous cost. Mac users watch in amazement as Windows users drool over features they have had for years and often a decade or more, that they have always taken for granted because the features have always worked unlike the newly duped who go through contortions and hours of fruitless toil and cost to in the end accept it's just another Microsoft lie. Vapourware is the single product Microsoft excels at.

No Mac user has spyware, viruses, worms or back doors to worry them. Crap software and these malware plagues are simply not tolerated by Mac users. Windows users not only tolerate these huge costs and crap software implementations but seem to have pride in the level of torture they are willing to subject themselves to. Some perverted form of Stockholm syndrome or mass psychosis? Who knows but to those who have loved ones caught in this skewed reality it's truly disheartening and sad.

Although Microsoft's lies about how good their stuff is, is now met with suspicion and derision by current users, the anti-Mac lies Microsoft minions spread are swallowed whole with nary an inkling of how stupid that is. Mac users constantly try to inform the Windows users of the truth about computing, once free from the grip of Microsoft. Some of the brightest are saved but 99% are unable to rise out of their stupor.

This level of ignorance costs hundreds of billions of dollars each year. This is money companies and individuals could be using for good, but instead shovel it into the coffers of Microsoft the benevolent torturer.

Everything you will be promised in the next iteration of Windows, five years after Vista, is available and actually works now in Apple's Mac OS-X. Windows as always is so far behind it's users are convinced they truly are first. And so the cycle repeats.

Sites like this are never going to give you the straight truth. They also depend on Microsoft's obsolete operating system's kludge upon kludges bringing you back constantly, to find hope and solutions that never materialize. Perhaps today your mind is clear enough to start thinking for yourself? Buy a Mac and free yourself from the tyranny of Microsoft.

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