Well, I thought this would be o.k. to post in this forum, but if not, and as mentioned in another thread, I welcome any and all profanity laced chastisement. I would think my still using Windows alone would be good enough for a good e-thrashing...
I am currently beginning my conversion to all things non-Microsoft and it will culminate in a purchase of a Macbook Pro later this year. However, my affinity for Microsoft started to wane about two years ago, and not surprisingly it all started with Internet Explorer. From this point forward it will be referred to as IE, Internet Exploder, or just simply "crap browser".
I started using Firefox back before it went gold and just from using another browser, I could see that my social conditioning to Windows was more sinister than I expected. Just something as simple as tabbed browsing made me think that I had arrived at Shangra La. The speed of this browser was simply astonishing, and I immediately stopped using IE, and now only use it because my company makes me use it with our business apps.
I started to ponder my PC usage and I realized that I was spending way too much time maintaining my computer like it was a 1967 Shelby instead of a brand new car. Everyday, scan for spyware, wait for Windows update to finish it's infinitely long download and installation, and of course the ever popular program corruption of something I wanted to use. The registry was a place I was spending entirely too much time in. I thought to myself, shouldn't the computer work for me, versus me working for the computer?
Well, I started using the Mac G4 we have up here more and more and as I sat there using it, I noticed that I was essentially becoming bored, but not bored in the sense of being bored using a Mac. Being bored because I would get my work done in half the time as I do on a PC. That is, I was not maintaining the computer, but actually using it to get work done. While Microsoft doesn't have a word for this for obvious reasons that were becoming more and more apparent to me by the second, I thought to myself, "Mac users have a name for this...this process...I think it's called productivity."
As an IT student about to graduate, I started to become annoyed that anytime I coded a website according to W3C standards, it inevitably didn't work in the crap browser, but worked fine on a Mac, or a PC using Firefox, Netscape, hell even Opera. My ire with Microsoft just continued to rage and I realized that all those years I thought Mac's weren't compatible, it was actually Microsoft that wasn't compatible with the rest of the civilized world. Why must a company like Microsoft choose to have their own standards and obviously force those onto to companies, or companies roll over and play dead and adopt them, when developers around the world are using W3C? The answer was simple. Bill Gates is in fact Satan..just kidding, but I do believe that while business is business, Microsoft is not interested in being cross platform compliant. I decided then and there, I must cleanse myself.
While I still use a PC today, because that's the world we live in in terms of my having a job, at every opportunity, I choose to use Apple products, or non-Microsoft products because I'm sick of settling for second best and getting first worst. I just got off the Mac G4 even as I write up my little gripe here, and I noticed that while it has 1GB of SDRAM it's operating at 450 Mhz and still lighting fast compared to my Pentium 3.2 Ghz machine with 1 GB SDRAM. That shows me that it's just a better computer all around. What irked me the most just now is that none of the applications on it had been updated at all, so I've resigned myself that to get mor acquainted with the Mac, I need to become our Mac Administrator, even though I'm a newbie! They are treating our machine like a bastard child. I almost vomited.
Anyway, I'm probably sounding like a fanboy, if you can sound like a fanboy and not actually own a Mac yourself, but I'm just surprised how much of Microsoft's swill I ingested over the years because I was either ignorant, dumb, or just plain stupid. Either way, I've decided to join the Church of the Mac and I shall render my tithes and offering accordingly.
End of rant...(hopefully not looking like a jackass)
I am currently beginning my conversion to all things non-Microsoft and it will culminate in a purchase of a Macbook Pro later this year. However, my affinity for Microsoft started to wane about two years ago, and not surprisingly it all started with Internet Explorer. From this point forward it will be referred to as IE, Internet Exploder, or just simply "crap browser".
I started using Firefox back before it went gold and just from using another browser, I could see that my social conditioning to Windows was more sinister than I expected. Just something as simple as tabbed browsing made me think that I had arrived at Shangra La. The speed of this browser was simply astonishing, and I immediately stopped using IE, and now only use it because my company makes me use it with our business apps.
I started to ponder my PC usage and I realized that I was spending way too much time maintaining my computer like it was a 1967 Shelby instead of a brand new car. Everyday, scan for spyware, wait for Windows update to finish it's infinitely long download and installation, and of course the ever popular program corruption of something I wanted to use. The registry was a place I was spending entirely too much time in. I thought to myself, shouldn't the computer work for me, versus me working for the computer?
Well, I started using the Mac G4 we have up here more and more and as I sat there using it, I noticed that I was essentially becoming bored, but not bored in the sense of being bored using a Mac. Being bored because I would get my work done in half the time as I do on a PC. That is, I was not maintaining the computer, but actually using it to get work done. While Microsoft doesn't have a word for this for obvious reasons that were becoming more and more apparent to me by the second, I thought to myself, "Mac users have a name for this...this process...I think it's called productivity."
As an IT student about to graduate, I started to become annoyed that anytime I coded a website according to W3C standards, it inevitably didn't work in the crap browser, but worked fine on a Mac, or a PC using Firefox, Netscape, hell even Opera. My ire with Microsoft just continued to rage and I realized that all those years I thought Mac's weren't compatible, it was actually Microsoft that wasn't compatible with the rest of the civilized world. Why must a company like Microsoft choose to have their own standards and obviously force those onto to companies, or companies roll over and play dead and adopt them, when developers around the world are using W3C? The answer was simple. Bill Gates is in fact Satan..just kidding, but I do believe that while business is business, Microsoft is not interested in being cross platform compliant. I decided then and there, I must cleanse myself.
While I still use a PC today, because that's the world we live in in terms of my having a job, at every opportunity, I choose to use Apple products, or non-Microsoft products because I'm sick of settling for second best and getting first worst. I just got off the Mac G4 even as I write up my little gripe here, and I noticed that while it has 1GB of SDRAM it's operating at 450 Mhz and still lighting fast compared to my Pentium 3.2 Ghz machine with 1 GB SDRAM. That shows me that it's just a better computer all around. What irked me the most just now is that none of the applications on it had been updated at all, so I've resigned myself that to get mor acquainted with the Mac, I need to become our Mac Administrator, even though I'm a newbie! They are treating our machine like a bastard child. I almost vomited.
Anyway, I'm probably sounding like a fanboy, if you can sound like a fanboy and not actually own a Mac yourself, but I'm just surprised how much of Microsoft's swill I ingested over the years because I was either ignorant, dumb, or just plain stupid. Either way, I've decided to join the Church of the Mac and I shall render my tithes and offering accordingly.
End of rant...(hopefully not looking like a jackass)
