<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 5-Dec-05, at 9:33 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Chris Olson said:</DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Windows has gotten cheaper to support than Mac OS because Apple keeps throwing a new curve ball that breaks backwards compatibility every 4 or 5 years. And every time they do, they loose more software vendors.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR><DIV>Bummer.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Bummer, indeed.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I wonder what the advantages of sticking with the mac might be, if this trend is going to continue.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Don't get me wrong: I am a die-hard Macintosh fan, and indeed in the past wrote - under the *<I>nom de plume</I>* of "Laser Quasar Absolutely" - a series of articles regarding the Future of the Mac at "MacReviewZone" (they are all archived at <<A href="http://tinyurl.com/9zl9s">http://tinyurl.com/9zl9s</A>>.) But if the Mac doesn't let me do what people need it to do, then it perforce *<B><I>will</I></B>* lose to Windows, won't it.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Oh well. Cheers, anyway.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>