<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 14-Jan-06, at 12:26 AM, Chris Olson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">The fact is, you can call it Windoze, M$, or what ever other little gramm<FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#001FD7">atical slurs you want to throw at it, and it doesn't change the fact that the business world runs on Microsoft software, and millions upon millions of people use it every day to get the job done. Usually without any of the horrible consequences that platform evangelists like to portray. The Mac is merely an alternative operating environment that works well for maybe 3-5% of the computing population. The day I can go to my local OfficeMax and see as many software titles on the shelf for Mac as I do Windows is the day the Mac will be a VIABLE alternative for the general comp</FONT>uting population.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Uh ... I dunno about the rest of you, but my wife's Windows machine - the one her office insists on her using - crashes, seizes up, or is just plain annoying, at least *<B><I>ten</I></B>* times more often than my TiBook. </SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">I'd say that definitely makes my TiBook more of a VIABLE alternative for general computing! </SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">(I agree, though, that for those few programs which just *<B><I>have</I></B>* to have Windows, because a Mac alternative does not exist, one truly *<B><I>needs</I></B>* a Windows machine ... with all its foibles.)</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers ;-)</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><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>