Thanks for the thoughts. Agreed on all fronts.

Look at my post from this perspective. Whenever OS debates arise, people tend to get the incorrect perception that Mac users think OS X is perfect. I’m just pointing out that it’s not, and as a Mac user I don’t project the incorrect notion that anything Apple does is perfect. That being said, the fact that I use Macs exclusively should give you an idea of which OS I find myself more productive using.

I still love the fact that our Windows sysadmins don’t want to go to Vista. Those guys are hard-core MCSEs. IMO, Microsoft should focus on buying search engine companies and selling game systems – the OS wars are not going their way. It’s only a matter of time (granted, quite a lot of it) before enough enterprise software runs on other OS variants, and then believe their corporate stranglehold will come to an end. They only own the corporate market because it’s just too hard to go to anything else. Given the option, I think most corporate IT departments would give them the finger.

- max

That being said, even your (obviously correct) observation that OS X is imperfect doesn’t establish some kind of parity between Vista and OS X, as you would seem to suggest. To illustrate that “imperfect” has a lot of variability — and since we’re judging products by updates — check out the list of Microsoft security updates being released tomorrow (2/12); the list include fixes for 7 “critical” issues (that’s Microsoft’s own categorization) allowing remote code execution and 5 “important” issues, 2 of which allow remote code execution and 2 more of which allow denial of service. Granted, this is across the entire product line and not just the OS, but Vista alone is affected by at least two of the critical issues and one of the important ones.

Looking at it this way, doesn’t “an issue in which the Eject command could write to a disc in the optical drive” seem kind of trivial? When those are the types of fixes being released by the Windows team, that’s when I’ll give them a break.