As a PC user (starting with Windows 3.0) the power of configuration has been getting more and more difficult to get to with the Microsoft products over the years. The latest release of the Mac OS (OS X) is built on BSD and easily allows a user the ability to get as deep into the operating system as they like - admittedly, quite easily. Microsoft has been spending years building wizards to remove the requirement of intelligence from the user and often to no avail. If you doubt me consider the fact that Microsoft is one of the few companies to take a product that failed miserably (Microsoft Bob), add it to an existing product (Microsoft Office, among others) and call it a feature (the annoying paperclip can be changed to a round circle, the same Microsoft Bob icon, only in Red instead of a puke colored yellow).

And yes, you have the registry editor but I've had to use msconfig to remove the startup of MSN Messenger more times than I care to mention. Really, I'll take the hidden power and apparent ease of use of the Apple platform over the headaches of using the 'Microsoft Tools' that are being shoved down my neck.

And if you think I was never a fan of Microsoft, you're wrong. I was an MCSE -AND- an MCT for years. I don't even own a mac... YET... (it will be ordered later this week!).