How the hell did that mess of a comment get modded up to "+5, Insightful"? I expect rapid anti-Apple madness around here, but I don't expect them to get modded up so high.
Apple's products are vastly superior to Microsoft's.
How so? I have run windows xp and several different linuxes on my laptops and desktops, as well as having used Mac OS pretty extensively.
What does linux have to do with it?
Windows XP wins hands down every single time.
What does Windows XP win at, being superior? How so? Doing what?
Microsoft has been convicted of anti-trust violations in federal court. Apple has not.
Courts are now the deciders for quality of tech?
Who said anything about courts being deciders of tech quality? You're pulling nonsense out of thin air. The question was "how are Apple and Microsoft different" and that was one example. Not a great example, but still...
Apple's monopoly power is in the portable music market. Microsoft's is in the desktop operating system market.
Apple's monopoly power is also in the hardware-that-is-allowed-to-run-Mac-OSX department.
Sure, and Microsoft has a monopoly on what hardware you can run the Xbox 360 system on.
Microsofts policy is "Here, do whatever you want with this so long as you buy it".
Yeah right, that's their policy.
Apple's policy is "We are licensing this to you. You have no rights to use it for anything other than what we explicitly declare and you better not fucking try to develop for it because we will sue you in to oblivion."
There is a large community of Apple developers that would disagree with that statement.
How, seriously, is Apple any better than anything else?
So now they're the worst "anything"? Right.