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Then I went back to my office and tried to write this article on a PC on which I'm running the beta version of Windows 7, the brand-new version of Microsoft's operating system. I'd written a paragraph when the PC crashed, for no reason. I started up again, rewrote the paragraph, and then the PC froze—again for no reason. At that point I gave up and just wrote the story on my Apple MacBook Pro, a pricey but rock-solid little notebook that runs on an operating system I can't remember ever crashing. I have no idea what makes one operating system work better than another, except that I know you need to have someone in charge who keeps telling the engineers that it's not good enough—go back and do better. And that, my friends, is why Apple, and all of us, need Steve Jobs.

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Posted By: creelguy @ 06/27/2009 8:57:15 PM

Just to add something, I have a Windows 7 machine, and a Macbook, and the Mac OS has crashed as many times, if not more, than my Windows 7 machine. I think the author needs a bit more objectivity in his article.
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Posted By: tommylane @ 06/25/2009 10:41:07 PM

Excellent, well written words of truth.
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Posted By: webmarc @ 06/25/2009 6:16:35 PM

Dear Dan, please note that "whiz" is something done at a commode. I suspect you intended to use "wiz," as in wizard or a person as gifted as one.

Viz.: "The wizened wiz whizzes whimsically."

That should be in a children's book.

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