[citation][nom]p05esto[/nom]Ah MS bashers. These companies all copy each other. History has proven however the MS successfully builds on the ideas of others and then makes a superior product. IE became better than Netscape, Xbox became better than Playstation, Windows was better than Apple, etc. A lot fo ways MS did this. Who cares, let them all keep competing - consumers are the winners here fools. We need MS, Apple, Google, AMD/Intel, etc etc to all remain competitive and outdoing each other. Right?[/citation]
You're stating a lot of opinions as fact but, in reality they're just that; opinions. I think that OSX beats WinXP/Vista hands down in performance. But, that's just my opinion. There may be benchmarks out there to prove it, but you won't find them on Tom's. Before I start rambling, the subject at hand:
MS and Secure should NEVER be in the same sentence. Each time MS provides a security update it's hacked within days. It's the price they pay for having the most popular OS/Browser on the market. Once this NEW product is released, it will be exploited within a week...make no mistake, you take your chances with MS products...I'll stick with Ubuntu/Firefox...the likelihood of it getting hacked is far less than the MS browser...Besides it's getting too expensive to keep up with their haphazard OS releases lately.