<story><title>Welcome to the new decade</title><url>http://twitter.com/phil_nash/status/21159419598</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlgosse</author><text>I mostly agree with Phil, but I still wouldn&apos;t call Microsoft an underdog. I mean, I recently fell in love with OSX, but my opinion still stands that Windows 7 is f&apos;ing amazing, and still outsells (or is at least on more machines than) OSX by an IMMENSELY large proportion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjs</author><text>There are more than a few of us who don&apos;t consider a machine suitable for real work unless it ships with a derivative of the bourne shell and makes it easy to run the same software we use on our servers.&lt;p&gt;My process to get up and running on a new machine is to change the keyboard layout to dvorak and run `wget -qO - bit.ly/newbox | sh`. On Windows I have to do everything in a Linux VM anyway, because I hate messing around with cygwin, coLinux, etc.&lt;p&gt;I know a lot of people will disagree with this, but to me a Windows box is a glorified Xbox with a web browser. Sure people work with them but unless you&apos;re using VS I don&apos;t really see the point of using Windows for development.&lt;p&gt;edit: I know I&apos;m not representative of the larger population but I think there are more people switching away from Windows than to it these days.</text></comment>
<story><title>Welcome to the new decade</title><url>http://twitter.com/phil_nash/status/21159419598</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlgosse</author><text>I mostly agree with Phil, but I still wouldn&apos;t call Microsoft an underdog. I mean, I recently fell in love with OSX, but my opinion still stands that Windows 7 is f&apos;ing amazing, and still outsells (or is at least on more machines than) OSX by an IMMENSELY large proportion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>houseabsolute</author><text>And apple can&apos;t even remotely be called a monopoly, unless you are referring to their monopoly on products sold by apple.</text></comment>