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 If you???re a Microsoft Windows PC user ??? and most of us still are, despite the Mac???s rising market share among high-end machines ??? you???re probably as irked as I am by those snarky Apple commercials that taunt us about the numerous shortcomings and imperfections of Windows Vista , the latest version of the Windows operating system. For example, here???s the ???yoga??? spot: OK, we get it. The typical Mac user is totally into the business casual look and has the unflappably serene, slightly bemused countenance of a Zen master, while the rest of us are insufferable coat-and-tie-clad poindexters . That hurts a little, you know? But what really sticks in our craw is how the Mac world isn???t even bothering to conceal its obvious schadenfreude toward those of us who???ve switched over to Vista, and thus spend our days tormented by incessant Vista Permissions , searching for new drivers for our suddenly inaccessible old printers and scanners, and endlessly tweaking third-party software programs with which Vista doesn???t seem to want to play nice. And don???t even get us started about the ordeal of trying to upgrade an old computer to Vista. All this for something that, regardless of all those gadgets and graphics special effects, can???t help but coming off like a clunky knockoff of Mac OS X . The venerable Christian Science Monitor has dubbed Vista ???The New Coke of the PC Age ,??? while Chicago Sun-Times technology columnist Andy ... |
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