I just have no value for it. None.

On a computer science level: it's trash. Really. Absolutely.

On a cultural level, it's the equivalent of fast food burgers made with processed cheese-food, extruded foam buns, and questionable "meat products".

On a computing professional level ... it's somewhat of a combination of those two (what professional chef wants to flip burgers in a McDonalds? what professional chef would brag about being the chef de cuisine for McDonalds?). If you can call it "designed", it's poorly designed, and it's terribly implemented. Windows apologists like to say that "it's the legacy code that holds it back", yet Apple managed to make a better kernel that still ran their crappy legacy infrastructure.

On an ergonomics level, the ONLY UI's I've ever used, that are worse, are the general X windows GUI's (Maemo and Ubuntu being the only exceptions).

As a computing user, I've found FAR less frustration with any flavor of *nix than I ever had with any flavor of Windows. Nor have I found any applications that I need where I couldn't find an alternative (often a _better_ alternative) on a *nix platform. Apple is better here then Linux or non-Apple BSD, but it's still there. The only exception being "games", and I prefer to run games on game consoles.

What does it offer me in the computing arena, that McDonalds doesn't offer me in the food arena? Nothing. "Every Vendor Sells It" == "there's one on every street in America". Windows is to computing what McDonalds is to cuisine and nutrition.

I wouldn't say I hate Windows. Just like I don't hate McDonalds. I just don't eat at McDonalds. Despite my weight (which I'm working on), I do actually care about my body, and what I put in it. Similarly, I don't use Windows. And I feel the same way about my choice in computing platforms, what things I will or wont run, what I'm willing to do to the computing ecosphere or not (by exposing the internet to virus laden and virus vulnerable devices), etc. as I feel about what things I would or wouldn't put in my body.

And I honestly (no offense intended to any of you) feel that people who run Windows either don't care any more about their computers than people who eat at McDonalds care about their bodies, or I assume that for some reason don't have a choice. I'm just not willing to be one of those people (not caring, nor not having a choice).