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It’s Been Fun, Mac, But I’m Going Back to PC
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At the risk of incurring the wrath of Mac users everywhere, I have to stand up and admit I am going back to PC after nearly 5 years with Mac.
It was fun, interesting and a great education. I’m always up for learning new technologies. At the time I switched, I was totally frustrated with Windows. For me it was slow and problem ridden. It crashed often and gave me fits when trying to perform photo and video editing. I made a lot of money fixing Windows, but personally I couldn’t rely on PC, so I left it for Mac.
Oh, how things have changed. I have been using Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit for over a month now and I could not be more in love.
Mac PowerPC Owners Are Going to be S.O.L.
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You may have noticed that it has already started. Software vendors are beginning to abandon the “old” Mac PowerPC platform in favor of the new Intel-based architecture. Many new and cool products are sporting the Intel-ONLY moniker to the frustration of existing PowerPC users.
OMG! Microsoft Windows 7 Kicks Butt!
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I have been a long time user of PC’s since the very first days. I was impressed by the advent of the graphical user interface with the Apple Macintosh. I used Microsoft Windows since its first release. It has been a roller coaster of good and bad since the first days.
Windows 386 and the introduction of Microsoft Office gave many of us technophiles hope for what was to come.
When Windows 3.1 arrived, many of us felt like we had arrived at nirvana. Windows for Workgroups punched up networking and file sharing between systems. Windows 98 was a bit more robust, but many users became familiar with the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). Not so great.
Windows Me arrived and nobody was happy. My buddies at Microsoft said that one should have never left the building.
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Using “Reply All” Should Be Outlawed
Posted by: | CommentsOr at the very least be punishable by 20 lashes with a web noodle. Every day I hear people complain about how they received an untold amount of e-mails because someone sent a message out to a group of people on a list and people were replying back to the entire list using “Reply All.” In many companies, using “Reply All” on network broadcasts to Staff or large distribution lists can get you severely reprimanded at best, fired at worst. Read More→
I’d Rather Switch Than Fight!
Posted by: | CommentsI’ve been a Windows user since the very first release. I remember seeing a Macintosh computer and thinking “How cute. But for real work, there’s the PC.” Twenty six years later, I’m singing a different tune.
In the beginning Windows was truly a poor imitation of the Macintosh operating system. By the time Windows was at its 3.0 release, it appeared to all of us in the industry that it was a viable, robust computer operating system that made PC’s much easier to use than just plain old DOS. Read More→
