[eggy]

I haven't been as excited about MS in a long time. I don't root for any one OS; I use what works for me. I have had, and still have them all: Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows 8 and 10. MS has open-sourced some really cool stuff [1]. Microsoft Research [2] is amazing; just look at the front page (Z3 high-performance theorem prover for one, F# and dev tools, Typescript, Simon Peyton Jones (Haskell) F* which has dependent types and compiles to F# or OCaml). I cannot find a similar site for Apple. The Apple domain is just a big online store for me selling product. MS Research is a cool site to browse just to see what tech they are developing and open sourcing. I think Apple is stagnating with the evolution of iOS like Android. I like the tiles in MS Windows 8 and 10 with live updates vs. the Android, iOS widgets and icons. I have owned Apple iPhones, Androids, but now I am looking at the MS Lumia 950XL when it becomes available. Android is not where I think it should be at by this iteration of the OS, and I am not locked in to any one eco-system, so the iPhone is not an option, although it still is a great design.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft [2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/

[agumonkey]

Aren't there waves ? This is how I see it http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SKfrICxISAo/U6H2fevDD_I/AAAAAAAAEA...

Apple was at the forefront after their revival. Google caught steam in the early 2Ks. Now they're both busy sustaining their model and Microsoft is eager for fresh love so their grabbing the ball. And that ball is half of the Apple style of product design and communication. That's the first time MS is so deep into aesthetics, glamour, engineering and talks. Before that it was a lot more nerd oriented.