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The conventional wisdom, that Mac’s OS X is superior to Windows Vista, is flat-out wrong. In fact, despite much belief to the contrary, Vista is a superior operating system. Here are five reasons why.

Sound familiar? That same year, as part of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple also introduced a similar UI paradigm called ‘ Mission Control ’, which lets you see all your open windows, fullscreen apps, and ...