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All 3 are doing pretty darn good. Still room for improvement but still very good.
Each has a couple things that make you scratch your head but the vast majority of their stuff is solid.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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I really disagree.
Try using Apples Numbers like a real spreadsheet. yeah, it is cool of you want to spend some time formatting something small. But use it as an alternative to Excel... No thanks. Or, like me, don't open the App store for about 2 weeks. Then open it, and WAIT FOREVER for it to download God knows what.
On the Microsoft Front... Office 365 with major incompatibilities in viewing and handling various of their OWN document formats, and missing key features (watched a 2,000 user client admit they can't switch due to incompatibilities with their existing documents, despite them WANTING more tablets and Macs to be available to the users).
Google... For 2 years I have put up with document preview in GMail that was skipping an entire paragraph in my word file. They just fixed it. Their PDF support ignored errors and displayed a PDF just fine, except even Acrobat refused to read it... No mention that the file had issues. Errors are being ignored.
Oracle? Lets see, the came out with a MINOR Patch Release (11.02.03 -> 11.02.04) that BROKE a public API (Thin Client Connections). Not to mention NOT fixing Java Issues, AND THEN suing over Google using the Java API... (as if that is a thing, and one hopes it NEVER becomes a thing).
I say they are average at best. I would prefer to see HALF as much software progress, and TWICE the software quality from all of them.
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I had to do the same, not much exposure to apple and google but most of it is positive, MS is a dogs breakfast of apps covering such a wide range that the question becomes irrelevant.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I still struggle to comprehend iTunes and my iPhone.
Guess I should use it more than once a month.
I was thinking of inbox on my iPhone to rate Google.
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Can the hamsters please align the radio buttons with the captions. The misalignment is driving me nuts.
Thanks,
/ravi
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The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.
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It means you require a smoke afterwards.
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pure pleasure
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I guess the answer highly depends on what "quality" means. The answer could be very different whether you focus on functionality (good software has a high number of useful features) or stability (it doesn't crash) or usability (even a DAU can use it). I'm not very used to Apple products, but from what I've seen so far, they focus on 2 and 3, while the functionality is often terrible compared to competitors. Microsoft used to focus on 1, while stability sometimes was at a loss.
What do you prefer?
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I really do love the softwares Microsoft is making these days, yes I agree in past few years they left off their quality and created more and more products and their versions. But now, they've left it (or maybe they're telling us so) and they're creating good softwares. I was going to vote them for a 4, but I clicked on 5 because of their .NET framework, cross-platform development and Visual Studio - best IDE.
Google on the other hand, makes good software, but they're not memory friendly which leaves behind the meaning of "good software". I mean, their Android IDE, for example takes away enough RAM to prevent my computer machine to do any other work. I suggest, Google should keep working on their search engine (because they've got a great service) and try to let the software experts (Microsoft) handle other tasks; this don't mean I hate Android, if you're counting system softwares too, then yes I prefer Android over Windows Phone.
Apple, well I have never used i-* products, and I am not interested in ever using them. So neither did I love them nor hate them, so voted a 3.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Well, said.
I am still amazed at how much memory Chrome consumes.
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: I really do love the softwares Microsoft is making these days, yes I agree in past few years they left off their quality and created more and more products and their versions. But now, they've left it (or maybe they're telling us so) and they're creating good softwares. I was going to vote them for a 4, but I clicked on 5 because of their .NET framework, cross-platform development and Visual Studio - best IDE.
Oh my. Even though I have professionally developed software on windows for 18+ years I have just the opposite feelings for what Microsoft is doing today. I pretty much hate every thing that they are doing in the last few years.
John
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Yes, I agree. But after a while, there softwares are once again better. Maybe because they're again started to listen to their customers.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I don't use Apple at all - They're overrated, overpriced and the user experience is terrible, at least for me.
I'm almost forced to use Google due to Gmail being my most stable email address ever, also it is well known and the web interface is passable.
Microsoft sucks 70% of the time, but there are niches of products well made, enough to cover for all of them. VS 2008 and Office 2010 for example.
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Like VS 2010 more. After it had opened the solution 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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If you don't use Apple at all, how can you say the user experience is terrible? 
I use Microsoft and Apple software and it really depends on what piece of software you're talking about. I think OSX is better than Windows, Visual Studio is better than XCode and Excel is better than Numbers.
But generally Microsoft is a mess - they try to do too much and end up with software bloat, often including things that don't work very well (SharePoint, Forefront, Metro, etc). Apple tend to be more minimalistic - you often end up with "complete" software rather than Microsoft's 85% software 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I had to use them 6 month at work and got totally crazy - the kind of frothing-from-the-mouth-holding-dangerous-tools kind of crazy I also loaned an i-Phone 4 for about 2 months from a generous friend of mine and history repated itself.
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Sounds like a C++ guy I knew some years back who got asked to do some C# code
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I'm a C++ guy who have been asked to do some C# code and I guess we had the same reactions 
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I always like doing something new - I used to do C and occasionally C++ a long time back, but love C#. I'm liking Swift these days, feels a lot like TypeScript (which I also like)
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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The survey should allow you to vote answering don't know for a specific product...
I've used 3 to answer for Apple...
Apart of that, where's my BACON?
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You've never had to submit to iTunes?
You lucky person!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I can tell you I've never ever seen iTunes...
For what I've heard/read it looks like I'm really lucky. 
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