I really don't care about this issue at all, but if I have to read any more threads with you relentlessly defending Windows, you have to disclose your employer. Looking at your comment history, you are obsessed, and I don't think it's fair.
Same goes for recoiledsnake. To me, a vaguely interested reader, you all come off as zealots.
Are you trying to make some vague point through sarcastic remarks? If so, I find it completely unhelpful and unconstructve. I am pretty sure internet snark is long-since outgrown by most of HN.
I find you completely unhelpful and unconstructive. I've criticized Apple and its acolytes before, but I've never accused one of being a plant. Consider the possibility that people are talking about Microsoft because the company is doing interesting things again.
Same goes for recoiledsnake. To me, a vaguely interested reader, you all come off as zealots.