George Azmy: My PC is blind!
George Azmy is one of my favorite Stand-up comedians. While scanning YouTube for his videos, I came across this one. He is talking about an experience with his PC that made him sure he have a blind one, in "I'm a Mac, I'm PC" fashion:
I know for sure this a comedy act, but this argue is valid. Why Windows-based PCs looks like they are blind compared to Apple Macs ? The answer is simple yet so many people don't know it.
Microsoft Windows have 98% of the Worldwide PC Market-Share, to put it in numbers, There are over 1 Billion PCs in the world, accordingly, Windows is working on 980,000,000+ PCs. Windows 7 alone have 100 Million PCs. According to his numbers (Which are not 100% accurate but yet very close) Think about how many hardware components Windows needs to support ? considering that any PC must have at least 8 hardware components: { Motherboard, Sound Card, VGA Card, CPU, RAM, Hard disk, Keyboard + Mouse and Monitor }.
Keep in mind that we are not talking about peripherals yet, like Flash Memory or Printers. Windows Ecosystem is so huge, the Windows 7 Logo Program have over 20,000 certified products, 13,000 of them are devices and components. Think about how many other devices that's not certified but just works!
So what about Apple Macs ? Well, Apple have a super-tiny market-share with a super-tiny Ecosystem, most of this Hardware Ecosystem is already controlled by Apple. Accordingly, Apple do a very simple move, it includes all device drivers inside Mac OS X, so that anything to Mac is a simple Plug & Play act. Yes, that's it!
In my opinion, Microsoft done an amazing and wonderful work since Windows Vista, it introduced Windows Update for Drivers. This dynamic way of Centralizing, Managing, Updating and On-demand delivery for Device Drivers is the true magic. Take that Apple Fan-boys 
and for George Azmy, Windows was blind, before Vista 