More Windows bashing

As a huge Mac fan, I have to love this quote from Hadley Stern's AppleMatters:

"...Window's boxes in the home are virus-riddeled, spyware crippled piece of junk that keep a large number of IT drones in business; that Windows is a cheap rip off of the Mac UI and that using Internet Explorer on a PC to check your online banking is akin to giving your debit card to some kid in Eastern Europe..."

There was also a wonderful article at salon.com this week by Farhad Manjoo, entitled "Hallelujah, the Mac is back". Very much worth reading. Here is a thought-provoking quote from that article: "When discussing the PC business, an important thing to remember is that nothing's quite settled yet. The personal computer is a young product, and the PCs we have today are not the PCs we'll have forever. David Gelernter, the Yale computer scientist, raised parts of this argument in December in an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal, published on the occasion of IBM's sale of its personal computer business to Lenovo, a Chinese firm. Gelernter lamented that sale; it indicated, he wrote, that IBM no longer saw potential for the greatness of the PC, and that this "is a shame, even a tragedy -- because the modern PC is in fact a primitive, infuriating nuisance. If the U.S. technology industry actually believes that the PC has grown up and settled down, it is out of touch with reality -- and the consequences could be dangerous to America's economic health."