Originally Posted by Wol

I used RISC-OS for years: a 4Mb ROM which contained a Windows-like GUI, a word processor, a paint program, a vector-drawing program akin to Corel, a text writer, BASIC and several games and diagnostics.

4 Mb: how does that compare with Vista?

Add in the fact that RISC-OS loads in around five seconds and is virtually immune to malware - being in ROM - how on earth did we ever get into a world dominated by Micro$oft, multi-DVD operating systems, daily patches and Blue Screens?

Rant over.

Originally Posted by Hutch

For the record, the antivirus package that came out consistently better than any other, according to all the independent testing labs was this one.

Originally Posted by Hutch

Well, some of us jumped ship a while back. But I take your point.

Games aside, I can't think of a single compelling reason to choose Windows over OSX or even a good Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora.

Originally Posted by DrWho

Yes, Ubuntu is remarkably stable, easy to use, and supports the latest hardware now... Pity there isn't a decent direct competitor to SBS or people would be jumping ship in their 100's of thousands...