Windows vs Apple: which is the best OS of the two?
If you speak with Apple fans and ask them why Windows is so popular, while only a 5% use Apple, you are likely to have whatever answers – except for the simple one, that Windows is a better OS.
The success of Windows is a result of many factors – from flexibility in PC prices, due to the variety of companies involved, to the wealth of options when building a PC. What I’d like to emphasize here is that the superiority of the OS itself is the most important factor of its success. Windows lets you do the same or even more things with your computer, offering more (and usually more efficient) ways to do these things.
I won’t write a full review of the differences between Windows and Apple OS, far from that — just a few indicative remarks about the first moments of using them, those decisive moments, when one tries to find a way into the functions of a computer. 
The Taskbar
Opening a Windows computer one comes in a clean environment – a taskbar with no menus at all, and just a single button, the Windows Globe which opens the Start menu.
Apple presents a taskbar with several menus, which can not be moved anywhere!, but only stays at the top edge of the screen — a way that is not superior, not even close to the convenience of the Windows Start menu.
Searching
Apple Finder is a mess. Even Spotlight, although in the right direction as a concept, in action tends to be confusing. Compare Spotlight with the Search built in the Windows 7 Start menu, and you will know immediately the huge difference between them in the accuracy of results and the clean way in which these results are presented in Windows.
The audio
Then try to play some audio files. In Windows you can just select a folder, right click on it, and immediately have it loaded in a player. Nothing like that on OSX. Even playing music needs some effort.
The Programs
At the Apple side one can find far less programs, freeware or not, even face compatibility problems trying to communicate with users of a Windows PC. There are far less options when it comes also to hardware choices. But in any case there remains the OS itself — and nothing makes the Apple OS better than Windows, on the contrary. The popularity of Windows is not a coincidence, it is related with the quality of the operating system, so that if you are thinking about getting an Apple computer, my advice would be to think about it again and again…
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