Ground Rules for the Windows-Macintosh War
Source: New York Times
Written By David Pogue
Last week, I wrote about some of the changes Microsoft has in store for the next version of Windows, which is slated for the end of 2006. Interestingly, very few of you responded to that column, probably because so much may change in the next 19 months.
But a few of you fired off diatribes about how I’m either a Microsoft “shill” or an Apple “apologist” (or maybe it was the other way around). It’s not just me, either; it’s a running sardonic joke among tech columnists that you can’t even USE the word “Apple” or “Microsoft” without getting hate mail from somebody or other.
It’s kind of amazing that various extremists could find the same column too pro-Microsoft AND too pro-Apple. But hey–that’s the nature of ideological soldiers, whether they’re in the conservative-liberal war, the evolutionist-creationist war or the Hummer-Prius war.
The Mac-Windows war, though, is especially pointless, protracted, and winnerless. There will always be people on each side who are every bit as rabid and un-convincible as those in any other religious war.
Still, I’d like to suggest, as a starting point of civility, a few pointers for participants in the O.S. war. Consider it one man’s version of, “Can’t we all just get along?”
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