Micro$oft would like you to think
there are no options in the computing world. Thankfully Macintosh and
Linux are rising stars due to the failures and poor products from
Microsoft... especially with the horrible Windows Vista OS.
I use
Mac as my primary OS, but there is a huge array of other, fully
functional and great OS's out there. My second computer has several of
them which I use regularly. There are many great OS's that are completely free and that are being tested and improved
continuously by 1000's of volunteers.
