I come from the melting pot called Canada. We mostly have freedom of speech here. I’m of mostly Finn and Austrian background, and my kids have that plus French Canadian, Irish, Mohawk, Iroquois, and who knows what else! I speak English and French, but unfortunately, no German or Finn.
Now what were we talking about? Oh yes, PCs, Microsoft, music streaming, and updates.
I am a Unix guy from way back. I dabbled with Linux in 1995. Tried getting it working on a MicroVax 2, and I was somewhat successful, but it was such a pain. I also built my own PC from some very high end parts, and ran Windows NT on it. I had a 10,000 RPM system disk in 97! Windows was also a real pain until I discovered I had a flakey graphics card that was causing MS Word to crash! In Unix or VMS, I could have looked at the error logs and seen exactly what was going wrong when! After replacing the graphics card, it ran great! But it is kludgy after using Digital and Compaq OSF. Moved over to Apple when HP killed OSF. Always worked with Windows, from Win 3.0 onward and hate it! Everything is so intertwined. For example, if your outlook mailbox runs out of space, excel will hang or crash! That still happens with 10. I’m a power user, working with large spreadsheets a great deal. This is very annoying. I run Windows at home on a VM running on my Mac Pro 2011. NAS and TimeMachine are very much my friend. I absolutely love TimeMachine! So easy to use!
I also run iTunes on the Mac Pro accessing my music library that I uploaded from cd. Also super easy to do, and each album loaded costs max $2. Three systems access the iTunes library using airport express. Say what you want, Apple knows how to make doing something like this very easy! That is worth the premium cost for software and hardware that just, work! Not to mention, the value is still way better than most pcs of the same age.
That being said, from what I've heard, freedom of speech isn't limited to America.
