I guess this is how Skynet won... time travel is a bitch.

I'm pretty sure that 90% of all documents on the internet need nothing more fancy than RTF encoding or even a very simple set of BBCode tags to be usable. I know PDFs are supposed to have tons of features but why not just be simple and stick with ASCII?

Google Apps for email, works miracles and it still allows you to use Outlook but also lets you use all the nifty free Mac apps. It has a calendar and automagically blocks spam. I've set this up for about 15 domains now, everybody loves it.

Active Directory however is one of the best features of Windows in the enterprise. Sure, their permissions make me go cross eyed but that's another story and has nothing to do with AD. It's really just LDAP with extensions anyway so you are complaining about the Microsoftisms that drive everybody nuts. It's a hard job to design a tool that works 90% for everybody in every use and not have some limitations from doing that.

As has been said previously: the flaw here is a PEBKAC issue. To save them from themselves we should be asking M$ to port Office to the Wii and a large majority of users can use that. The real issue that drives us all nuts with Windows is that it is a platform for 3rd party apps that work like shit. Almost all the M$ programs I've had to admin work awesome on their own, it's that accounting app that is 23 years old or some one-off utility database that sucks balls and forces us to reach around our heads to scratch our ear.

I gave up on games after I started to feel the treadmill effect of doing the same thing over and over. I pulled out the instrument I gave up for a decade and started actively entertaining myself rather than passively. This led me to home recording and then onto music production.

I've never been happier since I stopped consuming and started creating.

Wow, and to think when I upgrade Mac OS X it only cost me $30 and already had that shit...

Vista cost something near $300, and 7 is around $200. For... larger icons... and fancy graphics. The problems with Windows for most consumers is the constant update treadmill. Most support calls I get from my family have to do with their anti-virus software that has it's own grinding death march of updates as well. MS Office is terrible for this even on the Mac, if the 2000 version for Windows had a citation manager I'd still be using that. Adobe does the same, yet their software is capable of running just fine for years w/o an update performed (in fact, it is more stable if you is the pirated versions).

Which makes me wonder: why does an office suite take a gig of RAM to run? Didn't we run old ones off of floppies? I mean, really, Google Docs does 99% of what Office does and it runs in a web browser.

Once you start USING a computer for something instead of having a digital hot-rod on your desk you grow weary of the upgrade grind. Nobody gets excited about a new washer/dryer like how people froth about new MS releases.