U.S. Billionaire Throws Windows Vista Out, "Upgrades" to Mac OS X Tiger

Mark Cuban is currently billionaire number 407 in Forbes' top of the world's wealthiest people. Credited with a self-made fortune of $2.3 billion, the man which started out as a bartender and ended up owning the NBA professional basketball team Dallas Mavericks failed to be impressed with the Wow that Microsoft advertised so heavily in connection to its latest operating system. It seems that the decision to migrate from Windows Vista and the PC platform to Apple's Mac OS X Tiger was catalyzed by the functionality issues of Microsoft's platform. Along with the Wow, the Redmond company also advertised heavily the intimate connection between Vista and the Office 2007 System. Cuban reveals a different perspective over the matter.

"I sold and bought my first PC a long, long time ago. Back in the late 80s I owned a Mac, I think it was a Mac2. I honestly thought there would never come a time where I would buy a Mac. Ever. Then I upgraded my PC to Vista. What a disaster. I had grown accustomed to my PC freezing every now and then. Enter Vista and my PC was frozen more often than it was working. The biggest culprit was MicroSoft Outlook. The application has to have a memory leak. I could follow memory numbers as they grew and grew. Then as my email was downloading, the rules would stop working and everything went straight to my inbox. Spam and all. When you get as many emails as I do. Thats a problem. When it also causes the system to freeze, its more than just a problem," Cuban explained.

The owner of the Dallas Mavericks managed to train Vista to work a tad better by deploying various tweaks for the operating system. The platform crashed less, but it still crashed. And Cuban's frustration was reaching critical levels especially since his configuration involved only basic programs such as Office and Firefox. Additionally, not only the desktop, but also his laptop was acting up. With money not an issue, Cuban decided to see if the grass is indeed greener on Apple's side of the operating system market, and acquired a MacBook. The U.S. billionaire still uses Vista on his desktop machine, but otherwise it's all Mac OS X. "I haven't looked back," Cuban stated adding that there are "3 simple Mac elements that make me very happy. First is that when I close my MacBook without turning it off, it doesn't lose power. It can sit there for hours and then work when I open it up. The 2nd is that it rarely freezes up. Maybe 3 or 4 times in months. Finally, I LOVE the fact that it boots up in 1/1000000000 of the time it takes my PC. It probably will add years to my life .. (ok an exaggeration)."