kitzur_dot_net, ok, now i know you dont know much about computers in their technical terms (not that there is anything wrong about that), you are clearly either a developer or web designer. i am a network engineer, so this stuff is my specialty (as i have no clue what teh whole asp/php and sql stuff you talked about is). office 2007 is a completely different program, from the ground up. yes, they added graphical interfaces that blow the old ones out of the water, but the actual system is very different. for one, it is all xml compliant.
side point, opera stole that from firefox plugins. as for microsoft being “copycaters”, well so is mac. gui was zerox not apple. at least bill gates pays royalties!
as for who crashes more often, worp perfect, after version 12, is garbage compared to office, and it does 1 tenth of the stuff. office blows all other suites like it out of the water.
as for adobe, it is made for macs. the upgrades come out for them, up to cs2, which was simultaneous, first.
the ibm processor, which all pcs are built, is a far superior chipset. both intel and amd, the 2 largest ibm chipset manufacturers, just blew the mac chip out of the water. the mac chip in early 00’s maxed out, the technology met its peak, where the intel chip is still creating breakthroughs in micro computing.
i have been using office 07 for over a year, and it never crashed on me, or any of my clients, at least not any more then any other program. macs have constant problems with their mice (wireless) since syncing them is a pain in the neck. macs use alot more electricity (at a time of high bills, this is a bad thing) then your average pc does. (this according to trade magazine tests i saw about 6 months ago. it was minimal, but still there. they over heat alot. but they are gorgeous to look at. so is a bouquet of flowers, but that doesnt mean i want to store all my valuable info on it.
and dont even get me started on the ipod. sony archos, cowan, iriver all make comparable or better products then the ipod, and they are cheaper. and they dont mess with music format and licenses!