I never said I *liked* their products, although as a LAN/Systems administrator I use them every day, too. But until Microsoft's marketing department got into the act, no one was selling such a thing as a "home PC", aside from little toys like the Atari game systems. Once Microsoft started, Apple followed, and IBM and the other hardware manufacturers were dragged kicking and screaming into the pit.

I was there; I remember it. I miss my old Apple][, and the Commodore 64 even more; but Microsoft changed that, and it's rare that I think it's a bad thing. After all, Microsoft drove the price of hardware down, and for that I'm grateful; but that doesn't mean I have to use their OS on my hardware.

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