The 95 theses: Why Macs are better than PCs

Here are 95 of my favorite reasons that Macs are better than PCs (Reasons 1-25 are by MacAddict magazine. 26-37 and 86-95 are by me, 38-47 are by Guy Kawasaki, and 48-85 are by an anonymous mac fan).

Before beginning, let us pause for a moment to reflect on the relevance of the number 95 in the world. It's the number of theses that Martin Luther posted to protest the Catholic Church, and it's also the version number of one of the worst operating systems ever created. Read on!

Quick Navigation: 1 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Other Story

Items #1-#25, By MacAddict Magazine

Reason 1. Pop in a floppy and the Mac responds with an icon on the desktop that lets you know exactly where it is. Windows 95 plays hide-and-seek by sticking the floppy disk's icon on any one of your hard drives somewhere under the "My Computer" icon. Where's the floppy, where's the floppy... good boy!

Reason 2. The Mac is easy enough for a kid to use. Sixty-three percent of the computers in U.S. public schools are Macs, so many kids form strong, early attachments to the world's most lovable OS. Why hold back your children by making them use Windows?

Reason 3. The Mac OS always launches a document with the application from which it sprung. Windows users, however, can't be sure the document and the application that created it will stay hitched. If Windows users move a document or a program to a different drive, the connection between the document and its creator application vanishes. Also, a Win 95 document can only be associated with one application, no matter which app created the file. A newly installed program can sometimes take over these ties so that documents no longer open automatically with the apps that made them.

Reason 4. All Macs ever made come LocalTalk-ready, making it easy to connect even a Mac Plus with the newest, top-of-the-line Power Mac using AppleTalk. With PCs, it's virtually impossible to connect older 80286 systems with newer Pentium systems. Also, connecting a Mac to an Ethernet network generally takes half the steps it takes to hook up a Wintel.

Reason 5. The Mac is not only hip, but also well-connected. You can daisy-chain up to seven SCSI devices, internally or externally, to a single port on the Mac. The typical Wintel machine does not include a port for connecting external storage devices. Instead, PCs have an IDE interface that only allows you to connect two internal hard drives. Worse, some low-profile PCs can only hold one internal hard drive: to upgrade your hard drive, you must completely replace the original one. About the only way around this dilemma is to buy a SCSI card to hook up external devices or buy a drive that can hook up to the PC's external - but slow - parallel port. PCs do support an EIDE interface that lets you connect up to four devices, but other than hard drives you can only hook up CD-ROM drives and a few tape drives.

Reason 6. DOS is a pain in the butt to use, and whether Windows users admit it or not, it's still there in Win 95, lurking and waiting. For example, when saving a file on a Mac, you can name it whatever you want. On a PC, if you don't follow the DOS rules and regulations - try including a question mark, back slash or various other non-letters in your filename - you could wind up with mysterious error messages that even Nancy Drew would find puzzling. And woe be unto you if you run into a problem during startup. Say, for example, your PC Card isn't present and your system expects it to be there - you'll unexpectedly drop into good ol' DOS as the eerie sounds of the last laugh ring out from the Mac user at the other end of the office.

Reason 7. Although Windows 95 finally eliminated the eight-character limit for filenames, Windows 3.1 will translate long filenames back into it's own cryptic code, making filesharing between the two systems a task for the FBI. All versions of the Mac OS, on the other hand, understand 32-character filenames.

Reason 8. Games look and sound better on the Mac. "Every developer that I've worked with that has created the Mac version of a hit PC title, prefers the resulting Mac version over any other platform and it has to do with graphic fidelity, the quality of the sound and the overall look of the game," says Craig Fryar, MacPlay Talent Scout, former Apple Games Evangelist and co-author of the hit game Spectre.

Reason 9. The Mac is easier to set up than a Windows machine. A 10-year-old Mac user was pitted against the Editor-in-Chief of a major PC magazine in a contest at a recent Software Publishers Association meeting to see which platform was easiest to set up. The 10-year-old took 16 minutes, 15 seconds to get his Mac system up and running, while the Wintel expert clocked in at 26 minutes, 15 seconds.

Reason 10. AppleScript lets users, with even slight programming instincts, bend applications to their will with very little time or effort. With AppleScript, you can make applications work together in new ways, achieving the same effect as if you had created a custom program from scratch. To date, there is no PC equivalent.

Reason 11. QuickTime, an Apple innovation, was the first file format that allowed people to easily create videos, and cut, paste and otherwise edit them just like they could with any file format. To date, QuickTime still provides the easiest, best way for users to create videos that can run on Windows or Mac OS machines.

Reason 12. Macs are faster. Between their RISC-based processors and 32-bit applications (many Windows apps are still dawdling under 16-bit apps), the Mac leaves Wintel machines choking on its dust.

Reason 13. The Mac is still the first choice for creative types. Adobe's PageMill and SiteMill, tools that make creating and updating Web pages easier than watching an episode of "The Single Guy", were first created for the Mac. The initial code for PageMill was written for Windows, but market research showed that "the creative people were all using Macs," says Robert Seidl, who co-founded Ceneca Communications (the creators of PageMill). "It was a business decision for us, not a religious decision - our initial customers were on the Mac," says Seidl.

Reason 14. Mac designers wanting more pizzazz for their pages can easily make images pop off the screen thanks to Apple's QuickDraw 3D. While Windows users do have a 3D alternative, Direct 3D, it lacks a standard interface, so you can't copy and paste 3D objects into 2D applications. And, because the Windows 3D alternative doesn't support a standard file format, there's no guarantee that the 3D graphic you create in one program will open in another 3D application. Fortunately for Windows users, Apple plans to create a Windows version of QuickDraw 3D.

Reason 15. In 1995, Apple was granted 53 technology patents - more than any other computer company, according to Information Week.

Reason 16. "The Mac is largely responsible for the multimedia revolution. Apple's early adoption of CD-ROM drives and the creation of programs like Director, Photoshop and CodeWarrior have made the Macintosh the multimedia platform of choice. Also, delivering product to the Macintosh audience is a joy because they don't have the system compatibility problems common to other platforms." - Bill Appleton, president of CyberFlix, creator of DreamFactory and SuperCard.

Reason 17. You may need Word for Windows if you're creating stodgy reports for the boss, but if you plan on doing anything even remotely creative you'll want a Macintosh. The Mac became an industry standard for graphics early on thanks to the grand slam combination of PageMaker, PostScript and the LaserWriter. Now the Mac is such an integral part of the creative process that even the art departments of many PC-based organizations, such as PC Computing, PC Magazine and PC World use Macs exclusively.

Reason 18. A true friend, the Mac can talk to you and recognize your voice through built-in PlainTalk and speech analysis. Wintel machines, however, remain speechless.

Reason 19. Macs speak a variety of foreign languages - you can format a floppy as a PC disk from your Mac, read foreign files, write to foreign disks, etc. PCs are like arrogant Americans who assume that everyone else should learn their language.

Reason 20. Wintel machines are easy prey to infection. More than 8,000 viruses exist for the PC, with 100 to 200 new bugs introduced each month, according to a spokesperson from McAffee, creators of anti-virus software - the Mac has succumbed to only 40 or 50 such deadly diseases in its history.

Reason 21. Windows 95 supposedly supports Plug and Play - a user adds in a Plug-and-Play compatible board and Windows will automatically configure it. But, for a variety of reasons, this does not always work, meaning that the user then needs to reconfigure the board's drivers - the very task Plug-and-Play was supposed to prevent. Mac users, on the other hand, simply need to click on the Installer application that comes with a piece of hardware and they are up-and-running.

Reason 22. Thanks to the overdesigned Windows 95 interface, it's hard to tell what's clickable and what's not. The interface elements that should be grabbing your attention, such as informative text and clickable buttons, fade into a swamp of flashy bevels and gratuitous grayscale decoration. Apple's restrained interface makes it much easier for Mac users to tell which parts of the screen they should be paying the most attention to.

Reason 23. Many Windows applications require uninstall programs to remove an application and all of its associated (and frequently invisible) files completely and safely from your hard drive. On the Mac, just about the only programs that force you to use an uninstall utility are those from Microsoft.

Reason 24. Type 11 errors are nothing compared to the bugs, incompatibilities and overall instability of Windows 95. While Mac upgrades are usually refinements based on old, reliable code, the Windows revamps result in a totally new product. Although Windows 95 runs better than Windows 3.1 overall, users are still suffering growing pains.

Reason 25. Troubleshooting on a Mac often means popping in Casady & Greene's Conflict Catcher or Norton Disk Doctor and following doctor's orders. Troubleshooting on a Windows machine means you need to know your IRQ from your DMA and your CONFIG.SYS from your AUTOEXEC.BAT.

Reason 26. Almost every feature of windows 95 was thought of by apple. It 's not ethical to found a company with the motto "We take other company's good ideas, and make them Microsofts good ideas."

Reason 27. They are more compatible. You can run a PC program as fast, or faster, on a mac as on a PC.

Reason 28. On a PC, you can't even run Mac programs, or even use mac disks.

Reason 30. Nobody serious even thinks of doing graphics on a PC.

Reason 31. Macs are more compatible with themselves. You could view and edit a file made on System 1.0 in System 7.6.1. With Windows, a windows 95 file viewed by windows 3.1 would look something like "C:\startme~u\progra~s\Themea~e.bun" You could barely tell that the last part is "The Meaning of life".

Reason 32. Interfaces are more standardized. With PCs, you have a whole slew of different style interfaces, while on a mac, they're all essentially similiar.

Reason 33. Installers are more standardized. With macs, there are clear standards for how an installer works. With PCs, some of them don't let you chose where to put a file, and install it in some obscure directory.

Reason 34. Apple has a cooler dress code (jeans and t-shirt) than IBM and Microsoft.

Reason 35. There are fewer tiny crummy text based basic games. For the most part, no software on a mac makes you tear your head off trying to figure out how to quit.

Reason 36. In a recent study by an independent group, it was found that most people find that Mac system 7.5 is better than windows 95 in almost everything.

Reason 37. In a recent speed test by BYTE magazine, it was found that a Power PC outperforms a pentium by up to 81% in integer calculations, and up to 26% in floating point calculations

Reason 38. You can't use 5-1/4" floppy disks.

Reason 39. You can't go shopping with your friends for a Sound Blaster board
because Macs don't need one.

Reason 40. Your 200 MHz 604e Mac does integer calculation equivalent to a 362 MHz
Pentium Pro, but you can only brag about 200 MHz.

Reason 41. Networking a Mac is not an impressive feat.

Reason 42. Macs don't come in black, and we all know black cabinets make computers
faster and louder.

Reason 43. You have to add a system extension to make Mac menus stay down like
Windows. We like pokey menus because it's too hard to hold that heavy
mouse button down while we read.

Reason 44. And the Mac mouse is too slow. We want our cursor to fly wildly off the
screen when we twitch our wrist because hyper cursors make our PCs look
faster.

Reason 45. You just plug Macs in and they work. Where's the challenge in that?

Reason 46. When you add stuff, you just plug them in and they work, too. Again, no
challenge.

Reason 47. Your clients and teachers know about Nos. 2 and 3, so they expect Mac
users to deliver results, not excuses!

Reason 48. Apple is vastly larger than most PC users would believe. Don't take our word for it; just check the Fortune 500 where Apple Computer was ranked #114. (ahead of McDonald's, Federal Express, Time Warner, and General Mills), and over 100 spots ahead of, you guessed it, Microsoft (whose Fortune 500 rank is down at #219).

Reason 49. More web pages are created on a Macintosh than any other platform. Macintosh is the #1 platform for World Wide Web authoring, with 64% market share among U.S.-based professional web-site design firms. (Source: Web Week Magazine, October 1996)

Reason 50. Apple is the multimedia king! The Multimedia Market Trends report by Dataquest 1996, puts Apple at the top as the #1 multimedia vendor in the world--for the second year in a row! And the 1996 GISTICS Interactive Telemedia and Multimedia Industry Assessment shows that 54% of all multimedia applications development is done on Macintosh computers.

Reason 51. Apple Wins J.D. Power and Associates Desktop Personal Computer Satisfaction Study. Apple Computer, Inc. leads the computer industry in overall customer satisfaction for desktop personal computers, according to the J.D. Power and Assoc.1995 Desktop Personal Computer End-User Satisfaction Study.

Reason 52. The Mac OS is more popular than Windows NT servers on the Internet. After Unix, the Mac OS is the most popular platform for World Wide Web servers. More than 20% of the servers on the Web are Macintosh systems.

Reason 53. A PC magazine admits--200 MHz Power Mac trounces 200 MHz Pentium Pro in their own real world tests! Byte, the popular PC magazine, compared a 200MHz Pentium Pro with a 200MHz Power Mac (PowerPC) 604e processor in a series of benchmark tests for performance and the Mac blew the Pentium out of the water! In Byte's benchmark test the PowerPC processors outperformed the Intel Pentium in integer calculations by as much as 81% (Pentium vs. 603e) and in floating point calculations by as much as 26% (Pentium Pro vs. 604e). Not to mention the fact that the 200MHz is no longer the fastest PowerPC chip shipping.

Reason 54. Over 27,000,000 Macintoshes have been sold and over 60,000,000 people worldwide use Macintosh everyday! A new Mac sold every 9 seconds.

Reason 55. C|Net picks Windows 95 as "One of the biggest disappoinments of 1996!" In fact, in nominating it for one of the biggest disappoinments of the year, they said, "Though it was hyped as a 32-bit powerhouse, many companies simply ignored it and stayed with Windows 3.1. And who could blame them? Plug and Play is often plug and pray and to make matters worse, Windows 95 often runs slower than a comparable Windows 3.1 system. And 32 bit or not, it still crashes. A lot." Read it at: http://www.cnet.com/Content/Reviews/Special/Best96/ball5.html

Reason 56. Mac OS sales actually grew 9% in 4th qtr. of 1996 when you take into account sales of Macintosh clones! According to Apple Computer estimates, Mac OS licensees sold 120,000 computers (+/- 10K) from October through December of 1996, bringing total quarterly Mac OS-compatible computer sales up to 1.043 million units. This represents a 9 percent increase in Mac OS-compatible computers sold over the previous quarter. This is good news for Apple developers, because it shows that the overall market for Mac OS products IS GROWING, and market share slips aren't nearly as dismal as the popular media reports. International Data Corporation (IDC) currently estimates that Apple's market share in 1996 was 6.6 percent, down only 0.2 percent over the previous year. To help put this in perspective, Guy Kawasaki reports, "Sony's market share for color TVs in 1995 was 7 percent according to Appliance Manufacturer (April 1996, p. 32); and Honda's is about 7 percent in the car business."

Reason 57. Apple #1 in Japan! According to Dataquest, March 1996 , Apple is the #1 US computer vendor in Japan and the #3 computer vendor overall.

Reason 58. PC World and PC Magazine's readers pick Macintosh as #1 for Realiability and Service. The San Jose Mercury News reported, "In semiannual Reliability and Service stories, PC World surveys 17,000 readers. In March 1996 the overall best grades went to Apple, Compaq, Digital and H-P. IBM wasjust below that. That matches pretty well with PC Magazine's. Apple got the top ranking in both tech support courtesy and knowledgeability. I'm not surprised. My experiences with Apple have been superb."

Reason 59. Apple's worldwide marketshare is much larger than the public has been led to believe. In fact, Apple's worldwide marketshare is greater than the COMBINED marketshares of Cadillac, Lincoln, Acura, BMW, Volvo, Lexus, Mercedes, Eagle, Infiniti, Saab, Land Rover, Jaguar, Audi, and Porsche. (Source: Automotive News)

Reason 60. Macintosh isn't just for graphics! Macintosh has a 50% share of chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, scientific, and engineering computing markets.

Reason 61. Macintosh is still the only true "Plug and Play" computer. But don't take our word for it. Here's what Computerworld magazine had to say, "The full benefit of plug and play technology in Windows 95 is still two years away."

Reason 62. Apple holds the #1 market share position in K-12 education. According to Quality Education Data, 1996-1997 Technology Purchasing Forecast, Apple holds the #1 market share in K-12, and according to Field Research, 64% of K-12 teachers use Apple-brand computers.

Reason 63. Even PC magazines have to admit Macintosh is better! The February 1996 issue of PC World magazine rated the Mac OS the best 32-bit operating system, over Windows 95, Windows NT, and IBM OS/2 Warp.

Reason 64. Apple leads the industry in customer loyalty! A study by Computer Intelligence in June of 1996, showed that 87 percent of those who use Apple computers, repurchase Apple computers.

Reason 65. Macintosh is still significantly ahead of Windows 95 on features. Just ask Byte magazine which wrote, "To see tomorrow's PC, look at today's Macintosh." Or Computer Reseller news who wrote, "Market acceptance non withstanding, Windows is far, far behind the Macintosh." Or perhaps consider what PC Computing said: "Macintosh System 7.5.2 is by far the easiest, smoothest, most usable operating system out there."

Reason 66. Apple software exclusivity. There are currently over 1,889 "Mac only" Applications that are not available for PC users.

Reason 67. Macintosh held its position as the #2 software platform in 1995. In the wake of the Windows 95 launch, Macintosh software revenues actually grew from Q3 to Q4 1995 at a faster rate than during the same period in 1994. Specifically, SPA data reveals that revenue growth increased 26.2% from Q3 to Q4 in 1995, compared to 9.7% for the year prior.

Reason 68. Apple has international appeal. Apple is the most used personal computer brand overall in Australia, per IDC, and is the number one brand in Australian small business, education, and consumer markets. Macintosh was the number one selling brand of desktop computers in the U.K. in the fourth calendar quarter of 1995, per IDC. Apple's share was 13.0%, followed by Compaq at 11.9% and Packard Bell at 9.6%. The Macintosh Performa 630 and Performa 5200 were the number one and number three best-selling personal computers in the European home market in 1995, according to Dataquest.

Reason 69. Users who use both Mac and Windows 95 on a PC, like the Mac better! An independent study by Evans Research shows that people who use both system rated the Macintosh higher in every category including overall satisfaction, productivity, and ease of use. Read the findings of the report at http://www2.apple.com/whymac/satisfaction/default.html

Reason 70. Software developers make higher profits with Mac software than Windows software. Macintosh continues to offer developers and retailers greater profitability than the competition. Average revenues per unit remain higher overall for Macintosh software than for Windows applications, according to reports from PCData and SPA.

Reason 71. Apple leads in computer industry innovation. According to the Jan. 29, 1996 issue of Information Week, Apple Computer was awarded 53 U.S. software patents in 1995, more than any other vendor.

Reason 72. PC Magazine awards Apple top honors in customer service and reliability. Apple leads in reliability. For the third consecutive time, Apple has received top marks in 1996 for reliability and service from PC World magazine. Apple's customer support staff received the highest possible ratings in technical knowledge, courtesy, and follow-up. Apple also received "best"ratings in the survey's three product reliability categories. Apple also received the top ranking for quality and reliability from a Home PC magazine survey published in November 1995.

Reason 73. Apple's still on the cutting edge! InfoWorld magazine named OpenDoc the winner of the 1995 Landmark Technology Award, given to the most significant original idea or advance in a current technology each year.

Reason 74. Apple ranks as the fourth largest personal computer manufacturer in the world. If Apple's fourth who's fifth? IBM.

Reason 75. Apple's got some jack! Through all the doom and gloom of the national media, it's rarely mentioned that Apple has a healthy cash position of over $1.8 billion in reserves (that's billion with a "B"). For 11 straight years Apple proves the Wall Street analysts wrong!)

Reason 76. Nobody can beat Apple's brand loyalty! Computer Intelligence InfoCorp just announced that Apple again led the PC industry in repurchase loyalty in 1995 and according to their report seven in eight of Macintosh users who purchased a PC in 1995 purchased another Mac. I wonder how many Packard-Bell owners buy another Packard Bell?

Reason 77. In a head-to-head public battle staged by the Software PublishersAssociation, the Macintosh beat Windows hands-down. The "Ultimate Mac vs. Windows Challenge." pitted a senior technical editor from Windows Sources magazine, and his assistant, against a 10-year-old Mac user. In a series of real world tests (which included assembling the computer, connecting a printer and a Zip drive, connecting to the Internet, etc.) the youngster finished in *half* the time taken by his opponents. But there's much more to this story. Read the full inside scoop here!

Reason 78. Apple is worldwide market leader in digital camera sales. According to BIS, the Apple QuickTake share is greater than the sales of all other digital camera manufacturers combined

Reason 79. Apple was the number one vendor in the Canadian consumer market in 1994 and through the first half of 1995, per AC Nielsen Marketing Research. Apple's unit growth in Canada through the first half of 1995 was double the overall Canadian market growth.

Reason 80. Macintosh is the undisputed choice of commercial publishers. Apple has a 63% share of the U.S. commercial publishing market and a 26% share of the corporate publishing market.

Reason 81. Using Macintosh computers to develop software saves money! On average, the cost to develop and support Wintel (Windows/Intel- based PCs) applications is 50% higher per dollar of revenue than the cost to develop for Macintosh. Also, the Software Publishers Association (SPA) reports that although the Macintosh hardware market may be less than 10%, Macintosh software makes up over 18% of all software sold. The report went on to point out that Macintosh users actually use more applications than Windows users and cited ease of installation of Mac applications as one of the reasons.

Reason 82. Macintosh rules the CD-ROM market. 72 percent of all multimedia CD-ROM titles are developed on a Macintosh; Regardless of the platform they run on, 42 of the 50 top-selling CD-ROM titles worldwide were developed on Macintosh; and Apple is the Number 1 multimedia vendor in the world...for the second year in a row.

Reason 83. Interest in developing for the Macintosh is growing! A survey of several hundred top industry executives at Agenda 96 indicates growing interest in Mac development. While 57 percent of respondents developed or sold products for Macintosh in 1995, 65 percent expect to develop products for Macintosh in 1996.

Reason 84. Color publishing is Macintosh! Eighty percent of all computers used for color publishing jobs in the advertising, graphic design, printing, publishing and pre-press industries are Macintosh, according to a 1996 study by Griffin Dix Research Associates.

Reason 85. Apple has large share of Internet client and Server stations. Apple's share of Internet client and server stations is twice as high as their general market share. And the Mac OS is the second most popular OS platform for Worldwide Web servers, according to a Georgia Institute of Technology survey; more than 20 percent of the servers on the Web are Macintosh systems.

Reason 86. The standard picture format for macs (PICT) is much much better than the standard for Windows (BMP). PICT files actually compress the data, whereas bitmaps just store all the pixels in an image. Heck, PICT files can even be compressed using JPEG, and most applications will STILL be able to open them!

Reason 87. Windows has to be about the least stable Operating System in the world, and this doesn't look like it's going to change. In fact, at Comdex 98, Bill Gates was showing off how easy it was to set up a scanner in Windows 98, and the computer crashed on him! Ha-ha!

Reason 88. Sure Windows supports Drag And Drop, but not nearly as well as the Mac OS. Here's an example: You're creating a document in Simpletext, and you decide that you want to include the contents of another file. Simply drag the file into the window. In Win 95, you have to save the first document, open the second, select all the contents, copy them, open the first one, and paste. Hmm. One step takes much less time than six!

Reason 89. Macs actually have a standard for styled text. For example, if you copy styled text from one program, you can paste it into another and it will retain its style. This works for Drag and Drop too! (see the previous reason)

Reason 90. Macs are organized much better. If you look at the hard drive of a Wintel computer, you'll find that the root level of the hard drive has dozens of files and folders. And in the system folder (usually C:\windows), the attitude is "just dump it in there." This leaves a mess of preference files, system files, data files, and the likes.

Reason 91. AppleScript and Apple Events allow mac applications to be controlled by users and other applications very efficiently. In windows, users can't write scripts of any type to control applications, and DDE is ineffective and hard to program.

Reason 92. So far in 1998, Apple Stock has performed far better than all other tech stocks. Which has been the worst performer? Intel of course! Their stock has dropped almost fifty percent in the past several months.

Reason 93. The PowerPC is a chip that has a great future ahead of it. The pentium however, is not an extremely advanced chip. PPCs use the more modern RISC method, whereas Pentiums still use CISC, RISC's predecessor. Also, PowerPCs will soon be made of copper, whereas Pentiums are going to be stuck in the silicon world for the foreseeable future.

Reason 94. Though funny, it's fairly obvious: The Mac OS is designed to be easy to use. Windows 95 is designed to be used by idiots. For example, Windows warns you that you're deleting a program if one is in the recycle bin. No, I just accidently dragged it to the trash, right clicked on the Recycling Bin, and chose empty trash.

Reason 95. Contextual menus on PCs are only added by a small number of programs. However, Contextual Menus on macs are designed to created by any developer who wants to add on to them. Even though Mac OS 8 has only been out for less than a year, there are already more contextual menu plug-ins for it than there are for windows!

General PC Slams

Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted.

Buy a Pentium 586/90 so you can reboot faster.

C:\DOS C:\DOS\RUN RUN\DOS\RUN

BREAKFAST.COM Halted...Cereal Port Not Responding

Bad command. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaay...

Windows: Just another pane in the glass.

PnP? Plug and Pray

Q: How many Microsoft Programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None. They declare darkness the standard.

Q: What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put on Pentiums?

A: Warning label.


Quotes On the Heels of Win95's First Anniversary

"To see tomorrow's PC, look at today's Macintosh."
- BYTE, October 1995, Copyright © 1995 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

"The Windows PC of 1996 is looking more and more like the mainframe of 1986."
- PC Week

"Most users say the upgrade process was more akin to a nuisance."
- PC Week

"Although Windows 95 is 1 year old, it could be extinct by the turn of the century..."
- PC Week

"... the product did not live up to the mammoth-size hype that accompanied the launch."
- Computer Reseller News

"... compared with the hype, it almost looks like a failure."
- Andrew Schulman (author of Windows programming books)

  Three Apple engineers and three Microsoft employees are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three Microsoft employees each buy tickets and watch as the three Apple engineers buy only a single ticket. "How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?' asks a Microsoft employee. "Watch and you'll see," answers the Apple engineer.
  They all board the train. The Microsoft employees take their respective seats, but all three Apple engineers cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, "ticket please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on. The Microsoft employees saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the Microsoft employees decide to copy the Apple engineers on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and all that). When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the Apple engineers don't buy a
ticket at all. "How are you going to travel without a ticket says one perplexed Microsoft employee. "Watch and you'll see," answers an Apple engineer.
  When they board the train the three Microsoft employees cram into a restroom and the three Apple engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterward, one of the Apple engineers leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the Microsoft employees are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please..."