I’ve been a hardcore Mac guy since 1984, when my dad got an early 512. No hard drive, but two floppies. In my days of moral certainty, I was a fire-breathing Mac evangelist, but I haven’t felt really partisan about the OS Wars for years. Apple is thriving, Macs run on Intel chips now, and you can run Windows programs on your Mac. There’s certainly no reason to get excited about the whole Mac/Windows issue. It’s so 1997. Use what makes you feel happy.
And yet, I never really got over the injustice of Microsoft achieving world dominance by ripping off the best of the MacOS. And so I feel irkage when I hear reports of Microsoft artlessly plundering the Mac yet again for their new Vista system.
Luckily, David Pogue (formerly of the Pogues), points out that it’s not a ripoff at all. I feel better.
21 December 2006 at 3:42 pm
As always the IBM operating system os/400 is completely left out of the picture. Humble OS that quietly runs the world with none of the fanfare of windows or mac os. (none of the glitches or security leaks either :))
22 December 2006 at 12:33 am
lol – ‘formerly of the Pogues’! hahahaha