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They're doing a hell of a lot more cool things than Apple, these days. Windows is moving. macOS is terrible.

(Says the guy who's been a Mac user for >15 years and bought every new product Apple has come out with.)

Apple is doing this to themselves. As a dev platform, their appeal is waning. (Stop making shit laptops, and make your macOS stable again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

Microsoft, under Nadella, is making the right moves, listening to their userbase. It was enough to get me to switch back.

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I agree that they are moving, but they seem to be innovating without focusing on the user. It's like a bunch of enginerds working on cool projects that they are coming up with. Yeah they might be cool, but will people buy/use them?

Maybe it's still too early to tell, and all of these moonshot concepts will result in useable devices, but so far I feel like the device ecosystem and interoperability of devices just isn't at all at the level of apple or even google for that matter.

Ummm... YES. Lots of folks who have been unsatisfied with the current Mac lineup, and High Sierra, have switched. I did. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you need a UNIX-y workflow the Windows Subsystem for Linux makes all the difference.

That subsystem is too slow. It just feels kludgy. I want my things in my home directory, I don't want 2 or more locations to have files. That is why I will always run Linux.

Yet out in the real world Mac sales are continuing to grow while the rest of the industry is in decline.

Are you telling me they brought back Windows 7? 'Cause that's what people want.

As a life long Max fan boy who grew up on Apple IIs and Mac SE 30s - I agree

Doesn't Windows have ads embedded w/in their OS?

I haven't seen any ad. But that may be because I use the enterprise version. Maybe someone with the Home version can clarify?

I’ve been using professional since release and haven’t seen an ad yet.

I don't know if they're there or not. I haven't run into any ads yet.

The last thing anyone wants is for Windows to be "moving".

Are you sure your not a sponsored by Microsoft ad?

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