Computer Geeks in Movies.

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Amateurs think about operating system. Professionals think about productivity suites/server apps.

That is not a ding, that is advice.

When you get into the business side of the technology world you have to think like a end user. (No, not a 'remove brain' deal, an actual real end user who does job x.) They don't care one bit about operating system. They care about doing this job. See where I am going?

And, FWIW, as long as safe computing practices are used, Windows OS, especially Windows 7, is perfectly safe for use. We could get into WHY Microsoft stuff is the big target, but we can save that for later if you want. LOL

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Also, FWIW, my company supports about 5,000 desktops/laptops and about 500 servers (and growing big time) with a 4.5 person technical staff. We utilize a variety of software tools to help us do this while having minimal on-site time.

Moral? Making money in this business has very little to do with actual technology. It has more to do with process management.

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Calm down, dinging Windoze is now a hobby of mine. Another hobby is looking into way's to make client Users more productive without using Windoze, this will be a long time hobby and only a hobby as Windoze is my boss's bread and butter. Without Windoze my boss wont make as much money, same boat you are in . Im not pushing or even suggesting anything Unix on our contract clients but I do suggest it to our in shop clients who cant grasp Safe, Best Practices. However, some of our contract clients have users that could get viruses on a DVD player or a toaster oven and they could be just as productive with a Mac or a Linux machine without the Windoze headaches. Win7 is easier to lock down then XP, so we'll see, I do predict our in shop services for virus/malware mitigation will not be slowing down when Win7 gets a bigger market share. I also predict our in shop calls for BSOD, system sluggishness, and system conflict issues wont be any less with Win7 getting a bigger market share.

There are fewer and fewer "jobs" that I cant do on my Ubuntu netbook that contract clients do on their work stations. What I cant do on my netbook I can do on the clients servers.

From my limited experience some end users do care about the OS, its whats familiar and they fear change. To them a a new password policy is frightening.

If it werent for my mom my stepdad would still be using a Macintosh II. If he nukes his PC again Im setting him up with Ubuntu.

Microsoft is the major player in the computer world, if that isnt the reason they are the biggest target Ild like to know about it.

While i do not profess to be computer geek, i did make my living for years on computer systems. I spent most of my time in the Unix and VMS world but had my fair share of time with Windows which I do not consider a true operating system.

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Actually Mac OSX is a fully licensed version of UNIX. While Linux is Unix like it is not the same. Actually like Linux, Unix has so many different versions that the Berkeley Egomanics that created it would not recognize many of them.

Because of the holes in Windows most of the far east, Japan leading the way is moving almost entirely to their version of Linux.

Thanks for the clarification, but isnt Mac OS a closed source OS? Either way I do not find OSX very intuitive and it annoys me. I may build a Hackintosh in the future to play with the OS more.

For me the Unix based Ubuntu OS is very intuitive, easy to use and makes my job easier.

The impetus for me starting this thread was the proliferation of Mac's in movies where the users are peaceful and benevolent, the Stieg Larson books made movies as an exception, and movies portraying hackers and computer malcontents as PC/Windoze users.