Let me take a brief detour from the type of thing I normally write about here to talk about something else. Before I start, I will say that I don’t write as a pro-Mac user (although I am one), I write as an anti-Microsoft user. In other words, Mac or not, I don’t care. My agenda is not for Mac, it’s against Microsoft. That’s it.

Microsoft is a terrible company, making mediocre products, continuing to exist solely because of it’s size—and the user ends up suffering for it.

With the exception of the xBox 360, Microsoft has never made a truly top-notch product. Most have been passable, but always playing catch up to competitors technology. But because of it’s visibility and novice user’s lack of operating system options in the PC marketplace, no one realizes it.

Did people stick with Windows XP for ten years because it was the best? Definitely not. It’s just all that was really available. Meanwhile, developers for Linux suits and Mac OS were continually putting out enhancements to its software to improve user experience. Of course, Linux is filling a smaller, lesser known market. It was happening nonetheless.

So how come in a competition based economy, the inferior product Microsoft makes is able to stand? I submit that it’s about 80% size.

Think of it like the thick-headed quarterback on a small town high-school football team. Even though he’s dumb and for all intents and purposes shouldn’t be passing his classes, he is because he’s the quarterback.

With its usual line of products, Windows should’ve fallen behind and off the map a long time ago. But because if the size of the company and its resources, it isn’t able to fail. Meaning Microsoft never really has to work to develop a truly great product because it’s never really in danger of losing to another business. Instead, they can wait three or four years, take good ideas off other companies, implement them with dazzling mediocrity  and the media will praise them for their innovation.

In this way, it becomes virtually impossible for the novice to average user to get a really great product unless they’re able to pay premium prices for a Mac—which, as much as I love them, is simply out of some people’s price range. This shouldn’t have to be the case. And, if there were real competition, it probably wouldn’t be.

So, come on people, let’s do ourselves a favor and let Microsoft die.