The reason MS sucks is that it listens to its customers

Year after year Apple has come with much better products than Microsoft. At any given moment, Mac OS has been better than the current DOS or Windows version.

Why?

What is Apple's secret?

How can they with much smaller budget produce much better products? For more than twenty years?

The answer is that life is much more difficult for Microsoft. MS woos the big corporations. All the big corporations want all their requests fulfilled all the time, and that is pretty difficult to keep up with. If a big corporation still has DOS applications, Microsoft has to make sure that DOS applications still work.

In contrast, Apple only has to program for the moment. If old applications no longer work it is not much of a concern of theirs. There are plenty of potential buyers who happily accept that shortcoming, as everything else works so well. No support for 68000 processors any more? No worry! No support for classic Mac OS? No worry! No support for SCSI or diskettes? No worry! They can kick out old standards much quicker than MS can.

If 20% of all Apple users were to quit the platform each year, there would still be a potential market of 90% of all computer users to switch over. If 20% of all Microsoft users were to quit the platform each year, it would be a catastrophe, as there would hardly be anyone to win over.

As Mac OS constantly is cleansed of legacy code, Windows has a much larger overhang of old mouldy code they cannot remove without annoying some of their biggest clients.

That's why I use Mac OS - because Apple is strong enough to say no to its customers.