AntiOnline Spotlight Post Our members discuss which operating systems they use for the task at hand... Which OS do you use and for what purpose? Slartarama writes... 1. XP is very stable, I support it at work and will never stop using it until MS replaces it with something else as stable. All in all it is a damned good OS. Malware aside, if people were educated, it'd be tougher for malware to spread. I go to some pretty colorful places on the Internet and I never seem to get infected. I also know how to protect my PC, so there's that. 2. Mac OS is also pretty damned good, but Apple is not the up and coming underdog that they want to be and they are not angelic. Some of their business practices are worse than MS. I have no problem buying TV Shows and songs, but the fact that you can transfer the media to only five hard drives and cannot burn TV Shows to a format that is DVD player watchable is total BS... Read the rest here and share your thoughts with the AntiOnline community.

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