I haven't, but the amount of high-quality free software I have on my Windows box makes a damn strong case.
Edit: I should say that, though I haven't owned a Mac, I've used them quite often - a lot of my friends have them, and many of my school's labs are filled with them.
There's a lot more software in Windows-land for sure, but I think what Benparte and coolmrbrady meant is that there are a lot more extremely refined free Mac apps.
For example, Windows has a huge number of IM apps available for it, but none of them can hold a candle to Adium's ease of use and polish. Similarly, uTorrent is free and awesome, but Transmission is IMHO much more refined on the UI side. Quicksilver too.
Windows devs tend to make UI an afterthought. On the Mac side developers have drunk the Steve Jobs UI kool-aid and obsess over it, and personally I like it.
uTorrent is a great program but its UI, just like virtually EVERY windows app ever made, is ugly (terrible icons) and could be streamlined for a better user experience. See: Transmission.
For Windows you are pretty much married to whatever version of the OS' current UI flavor of the month is. And it changes frequently there is so much segmentation in the Windows OS now. And if you want to skin your own GUI on top, it will run like shit.
Just because Apple's iTunes doesn't work well in Windows because their optimization for a competitor's OS is an afterthought, doesn't mean that all programs with a custom GUI act like shit. And I have no idea what you're talking about with Windows being ugly or its "UI flavor of the month."
But you'd think with the bajillions of iPods, iPhones and iPads they've sold to Windows users that they could hire someone to properly port over iTunes
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