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Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

Adam Haider — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:11:05 -0000

I agree with you cloud-computing isn't the best way forward for consumers, however I'm simply speaking in regards to the direction the industry is going, this isn't my opinion. Nor is an opinion valid because the Internet will transition into Web2 anyway in 2011 where ALL Internet users will be required to use the cloud if they wish to carry on using their ISP service. The OS war will soon vanish within the coming years, you'll see.

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

gzirfas — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:37:42 -0000

In the corporate world cloud computing makes sense, in the personal computing market I think it is a formula for disaster. Try your cloud computing at 10,000 feet on an airplane. Can you say subscription based computing? You like the idea of paying a monthly subscription fee to connect to the cloud and a subscription price for every program you want to use??? No thanks. I'll stick with the OS wars.

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

Mack Hoover — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:49:49 -0000

Its true that Windows 7 has defeated snow lepord.
It is really awesome and have numerous qualities.

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

NMZ — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:40:38 -0000

I don't think it's a fair poll, Apple has a much smaller marketshare. It'd be obvious Microsoft would win, because relatively few people know OSX.

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

paulinelaila — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:57:22 -0000

aiye, I missed this poll challenge! I would have voted for Snow Leapard!!
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Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

CaptainPlanet — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:49:07 -0000

Your momma's stupid for spitting out a tard like you! dipshit

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

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Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

Milan Markovic — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:29:17 -0000

question. for someone working in social media and on the comp 24/7. Mac or HP with Windows 7? im a PC user but ive been working with Macs for a few years so switching is not a big deal...

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

JimGr — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:55:19 -0000

This poll did require solid familiarity with both Snow Leopard and Windows 7, right?

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

Finbarr Taylor — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:20:36 -0000

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Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

William Aleman — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:49:06 -0000

Everyones know that Windows 7 is the best. This time is different.

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

sokobanja2 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:19:33 -0000

Two diferent OS can't compare

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

michal333 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:54:54 -0000

come on this poll is balls. Majority of people using Windows have never even seen Mac OS. How do you expect any poll of this kind to be any accurate?

The truth is that Windows with it's crappy resource management, viruses and hundreds of other things will never get even close to Mac OS

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

woxxy — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:30:24 -0000

Something that people don't consider here is that Mac users are more likely to browse websites like this, and that of the 95% that are "Windows users", there's many more computers that aren't even connected to the internet, while Mac users 99% are.

Don't jump at conclusions with Mac and Windows users like they were the same kind of user. They have different setting, different interests, and also different $$$. And, sorry for bluntness, most of Mac users are also "MacFags", if you know what I mean, and a lot of Windows users despise their OS blindly, without having ever tried Snow Leopard.

So "normalizing" the result by using percents is stupid to do.

If I was here earlier, I would have voted Windows 7 over SL.

Microsoft made an OS matching SL, improving many concepts, and it works on EVERY machine, while SL has bugs even on Apple computers. I feel missing features in my SL, after using Windows 7. Considering that Apple has an OS working on their own Apple machines, and can't do a better job, Windows 7 has all my support.

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

davey — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:13:36 -0000

The only thing this poll shows, is that most readers on mashable are windows users.

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

Dick — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:07:12 -0000

I think windows 7 is better than snow leopard.

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

Kanon — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:57:33 -0000

Although I like apple' creative I will still support the windows operation.

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

Luis — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:27:36 -0000

Of course, if you take into account that 95% of people uses MS, and 5% uses Macs, then the poll numbers need to be weighted by the sample bias. So normalise the number of votes as follows
3632/.95 = 3823 Normalised votes for W7
3278/.05 = 65,560 Normalised votes for SL

Under this light, the results are not so great for W7, are they?

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

steve — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:11:51 -0000

considering the marketshare windows has over mac, it shouldn't have even been close
shows you how apple is still winning the perception war if you ask me

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

Booneyrat — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:11:05 -0000

Microsoft has never put out any OS that wasn't full of bugs . I will stick with Mac and Linux . No more Microshaft for me .

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

takechargeofyourbusiness — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:05:23 -0000

I am not sure this is an entirely reasonable way to conduct this survey. Are any of these seven thousand voters qualified to cast a vote? have they spent sufficient time with both OS's to be able to make a judgement? The answer is no, these people have voted on the basis that they are advocates for the camp that they happen to fall into, and if there is anyone still stupid enough to be in the Microsoft camp after the Pup that was Vista then surely they should have votes deducted to compensate for the obvious lack of intelligence. Had I voted it would have been for Mac OSX on the basis that since i moved to Mac I wouldn't touch anything produced by Microsoft with a shitty stick.

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

flaimdude — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:19:21 -0000

That's not really surprising, more people do use Windows after all. But good show Apple people! :D

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

Shaun — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:19:19 -0000

The fact that Microsoft has 93% market share does matter in an accurate poll. The base rate of PC users compared to Mac users is extremely skewed toward PC's having a huge advantage and PC should win. Unless PC users really hate their OS, which wouldn't surprise me :P

The poll shows us one thing and isn't which OS is better. It shows us an estimate of the approximate percentage of OS users who read Mashable.

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

Whitney — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:43:45 -0000

Ahh, the neverending war between Microsoft and Apple, where would our lives be without it? BloggyBlogDesignz, The Neuff, Whitney's Random Ideas

Re: POLL: Windows 7 Outlasts Snow Leopard in Reader Vote

sam99 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:36:47 -0000

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