I use Windows at work and Mac OS X at home. I have been a Mac user since 1998 if I include my time with BeOS on a Mac clone. I have used Linux, NetBSD, and Solaris at home, school, and work over the years. I have used OS/2 during the Warp 3 and Warp 4 years. Yet with all the experience, especially with Windows, I keep finding my way back to the Mac and cannot imagine computing life without Mac OS X. Ironically, and despite common assumptions to the contrary, I ultimately find that Windo...

Seeing that Brad has published a Windows 7 wish list , I figured I should add my Mac OS X wish list. I am not a big Carbon application user and hence don't really care much about 64 bit Carbon . It would be great for Qt and REALbasic and all those toolkits based not based on Cocoa, but I would probably prefer everything to be pure Cocoa anyway.   1. .NET support built into the system, with an Apple-supported method to use Cocoa APIs from .NET and vice versa. I don't care if Ap...

My first real computer was a COMPAQ Presario CDS 633 (a 486SX/33 with 4 MB RAM). It ran MS-DOS 6.2/Windows 3.1 at first and later OS/2 Warp 3. I first had to name it when I ran a news (NNTP/Usenet) server on it because OS/2 didn't have an offline news reader. I liked NewsReader/2 (nr2.exe) but I couldn't figure out why IBM believed that home users would be connected to the Internet all day. That was in 1994 and I was on (expensive) dial-up. So I named it gopher.gopher.org. The name was onl...