Commentary:Quite simply, Windows guarantees more work for the M.I.S. departments — becauseit computers require far more technical support to do the same work. And whenthe M.I.S. departments make computer recommendations to management, they tendto look out for their own job security over the best interests of the business.The same reason that many retail stores also push Wintel machines — itguarantees more work for their highly profitable service departments.
Inaddition to Mac OS X (which combines the ease of use and professional contentcreation capabilities of the Macintosh with the power, reliability, and speedof the NeXT version of UNIX), BeOS, NetWare, and OS/2 Warp Server, any of themany free and commercial versions of UNIX offer a better high end operatingsystem than Windows NT. See John Kirch’s article “Microsoft Windows NT Server4.0 versus UNIX” at http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/.
Seriouscommercial UNIXs include: AIX, Digital UNIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Macintosh OS X, MacOS X Server, Rhapsody, and Solaris.
Leadingfree UNIXs include: FreeBSD, GNU Hurd, LINUX, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
Andin the server arena, the leader (in number of installations) is still NetWare.
Studyafter study has shown that Macintoshes are less expensive to support andmaintain than Wintel machines. Wintel computers typically cost four to 10 timesas much in support costs. Even Intel’s own internal study showed that it wascosting them four times as much to support Windows machines as it did tosupport their Macintoshes (yes, Intel used Macintoshes for mission criticalwork — and since that study they have been expanding their use of Macintoshes).
Independentstudies over the years continually show that worker productivity issubstantially higher on Macintoshes than on Wintel computers. And thedifference is greatest in the creative fields (pre-press, illustration, digitalphotography, 2-D and 3-D animation, 3-D modelling and rendering, film specialeffects, broadcast video editting, CD-ROM production, multi-media, musiccomposition and performance, sound editting, and web site production), wherethe Macintosh is the most prevalent computer (even more than the high end graphicswork stations — and Macintosh OS X (formerly Rhapsody) brings the Macintosh tothe high end graphics work stations). Macintosh OS X is numerically the mostused form of See also: http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/, John Kirch’s article“Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX”
Ethics:Bill Gates is a longtime member of the Augusta National Golf Club, the officialsite of the Masters Golf Tournament. The Augusta National Golf Club refuses toallow any women join their club and for decades refused to allow Blacks,Hispanics, and other minorities to join, only relenting in 1990 to allow a fewtoken Black members when facing criminal charges for Civil Rights violations.The only reason that Microsoft hires women and minorities is because of toughfederal Civil Rights laws. If you are a woman, Black, Hispanic, Asian, or amember of any other minority group, remember that Bill Gates and Microsoft hateyou and only take your money becuase they are forced to by law.