Windows is not old and crusty, most of OSX that isn’t stolen from FOSS (Linux) or Windows is older and crustier. (HFS, PostScript based rendering, Finder, neXTstep).

99% of Mac apps will not install correctly if you just drag to applications, you have to use an installer.

When my Mac Pro mouse broke, i managed to buy 4 laser mice that all wouldn’t work with my Mac, I ended up dropping $60 on a Razer just because I knew it would work. You really dont emphasize that, ‘if its supported’ line enough.

Finally you forget to mention customizability. Windows is infinitely tweakable, you can scale Win7 down to a Win98 lookalike that will eat any other OS for breakfast when it comes to speed, and you probably can with linux, although I daresay it’ll take a lot more skill to. With mac this is impossible, not only do you get hugely memory hogging but pretty visuals, you dont get the option to turn them off! This is perhaps my biggest gripe about my OS.

I know the general trend is to bash Windows but this one just isn’t true. I think you’ll find – whoops, I’m making an assertion here based on nothing- that the majority of people who use Windows *just don’t care*. They want it to let them do what they want *and it does.* It’s only the ones of us who like to do a bit more than surf the internet with a computer that care.

And, a Windows user can take advantage of free programs as much as they can of paid programs.