No stolen state secrets here, so those who found us looking for a conspiracy, this is FAR worse.
I was a Windows user for - when did Windows 3.0 come out? You know, Windows 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, bleh for Workgroups. Basically since I was a child. Not only have I used Windows since pre-puberty, but I have on a number of occasions championed it's cause. This included a rather tense corporate battle replacing dumb terminals with Windows work stations, Novel with Windows Server, and a host of Sybase running on Aix machines with MS SQL. I have in deed lived the MS life.
A few years ago (10ish to be more correct), I started experimenting with Linux. Eventually using it extensively to replace Windows servers. I found a great love for PostgreSQL, Samba, and Apache in all of it's glory. Still, my desktops have always booted up to a familiar logo, good ol' Windows.
As of Friday, this has come to a sudden halt. My thick black plastic laptop case has been replaced with a thin aluminum shell with a silly little apple carved out of the back. I spent the next few days feeling as though I had just killed my brother's dog. I am a little different.
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by Chris Gamble