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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by Bud on Saturday November 21, 2015 @03:26AM (#10606174)
I can agree with you about Word and Excel.

I personally disagree about Netscape 4 versus IE 5, and I can remember both.

You assertion about XP being better than Mac OS X, however, is hilarious. If that's true, why did XP die, and why was Mac OS X so radically more secure than Windows for the last 15 years running? Why was it more stable? Why did it work better? Why did it have a shockingly better UI?

XP was crap and we should all be glad it's dead.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by frik on Saturday November 21, 2015 @04:03AM (#10606248)
> WinXP

Never heard about the Windows NT operating system series?

WinNT series:

WinNT 3.5 (1988-1994, based on VMS a bit on OS/2 designs) -> WinNT 4 -> Win2000 -> WinXP (August 24th 2001) -> WinVista -> Win7 -> Win8x -> Win10 (2015) [exluding all service packs]

MacOS X:

NeXTSTEP (1987-1989, based on Unix) -> OPENSTEP -> Rhapsody (1997) -> Mac OS X Server 1.0 -> Mac OS X Public Beta -> Mac OS X 10.0 (March 24th 2001, this is the first MacOS X you know) -> 10.1 -> 10.2 -> 10.3 -> 10.4 -> 10.5 -> 10.6 -> 10.7 -> 10.8 -> 10.9 -> 10.10 -> 10.11 (= El Capitan, 2015)

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by barrkel on Saturday November 21, 2015 @04:56AM (#10606349)
Netscape crashed way more often than IE. That's what got me to switch.

OS X was a worse platform because it didn't support much software - games in particular. XP was extremely solid, coming after ME in the consumer space (I had switched to W2K after 98, I took until SP2 before I switched).

So no, I don't agree with you. Even today, I think Windows is a better gaming platform and Linux a much better dev platform - OS X is insufficiently similar to Linux to work well when Linux is used in production.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by zensavona on Saturday November 21, 2015 @04:50AM (#10606340) 

  You assertion about XP being better than Mac OS X
"windows XP was a much better OS than the contemporary Mac OS"
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by russgray on Saturday November 21, 2015 @05:29AM (#10606401)
XP came out the same year as 10.0, which was rubbish. OS X wasn't really worthwhile until 10.3.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook fo... by 1stop on Saturday November 21, 2015 @05:44AM (#10606426)
Didn't XP only get decent after a bunch of service packs? ... is that not the same thing as 10.3?
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