lulz?

what happens when someone decides he wants to use your neat little chat feature to control someone's computer and delete valuable files or steal valuable info, like tax records that more and more ppl keep on their computer. Do Mac's have little pop-up messages that say "Congratulations you part of a lucky group that got hacked because Mac OS is so obssessed with putting down Windows we didn't bother to think about your computer security."

That would be a neat little "feature"

What planet are you coming from? Someone has to click on YES to let someone control your computer. Anyone on ANY system that clicks on Yes to someone they don't know or trust deserves to have their data wiped out.

This is absolutely the most ignorant article that I have read on PCWorld.

"The very existence of add/remove programs means apps are bloated"? Are you a complete idiot?

"The apps on Mac are single file" Yes you are an idiot.

You are listing "missing features" that are mostly not needed or in fact overshadowed by a much better solution.

Mac is a good system once you get all of the "Ease of Use" stuff out of the way. Windows is a good system if you are not a complete idiot.

Comparing the "Ease of Use" on a mac, with windows is like comparing McDonalds Big Macs with a home grilled Hamburger. One comes in a shiney box, the other required some love to create. Guess which one tastes better? The Ease of Use side of Mac simply assumes that you are an idiot.

Actually, why don't you? I mean, I'd like to know what great features you can think of that Windows has that an other OS should have.
I also think many people didn't read the article quite good. It's about built-in features. Yeah, most of the features in the article can be added to Windows using third-party software, but that isn't BUILT-IN.
What's with supported software? I can do everything I want on my Mac that I could on Windows. I can even open/edit Access databases while there isn't even an Access version for Mac. There is a lot of alternative software for Mac for every piece of software made for Windows.
I use both Windows and Mac for school and at home, so don't start calling me fanboy or whatever. I hate the stupid flamewars about that.
11 of the 18 things described for being on Mac are things I really use. + when I am working on Windows I really miss the Expose, Dock and Spaces features. So you can't say that the general public won't use them. They're very handy once you get used to them.

Ya. i can

DirectX

Internet Explorer

Windows Media technology etc

Lolz lets make a joke.

Mac needs(PCworld compared in this way)

Start Menu

My Computer

QuickLaunch Bar

hahahahahhah

This is a good basic list showing users a general ideal of the benefits of other OS's. I especially like the last, "Single File Applications" since I have mentioned this to Window's-only users (or Mac newbies) on numerous accounts to their reply of "That's how Mac programs really work?", or "I don't understand how that's possible!" or "you mean I don't run an install/uninstall program?!? How am I sure it's uninstalled if I just drag the application to the trash??".

Great article... To all those showing links to this and that freebie software... you're proving the argument of this article. Who the heck wants to have all these hacked capabilities from multiple developers?!? Time wasted and seamless integration and efficiencies of Mac OS X (and Linux to some degree) just can't be reproduced on Windows (which is already a fairly hacked application in and of itself)! LOL!

For all of the posters screaming poor ms going to get sued if they shiped the os with extra features. You do not understand. ms did not get sued because they shiped their os with ie, They got sued for tieing ie with the os in a way that it does not respect the end user choice of the default interned browser. Any os maker are pretty much free to ship the os with user applications that they had developed or impleminting what ever features they want to add in.

And what is wrong with you people you are almost blaming apple for making high quality software!

And please do not forget that the article is about what features that windows missing not who got the feature set. Mac, Linux or both it doesn't matter.