Having been brought up on PCs she wasn't ready to deal with a whole new OS. I was really pissed and so was my daughter. Of all the departments for her to want to be in this was the only one that required Macintosh. What?!? They said they were 'easier' and had fewer problems. I was excited to go out and get her a new laptop with XP or Vista on it until I read that her department required Macintosh.

She wanted to be a Marketing Communications major so we started looking into everything she would have to buy, including a mandatory PC. Then my daughter was accepted to go to Virginia Tech. But as far as I was concerned it was just a fad.

The Macs did look better with Mac OS X - it seemed like a really smooth operating system. I wrote that off as non-techies just looking for something new and easy. They seemed to be drawn in to the Apple advertising - it spoke to them. They were sick of the hassles of Windows, with the viruses and spyware and ever slowing performance. Many of the people in my network of friends and family started buying Macs. Last year something interesting started to happen. When I would watch the Mac ads with the nerdy PC guy and the cool Mac dude I always secretly rooted for the PC guy. Really, since 1984 - my first job doing professional software development - I have been true blue Microsoft. I've always been a Microsoft fan, heavily invested in doing Windows development. Before I was a Windows developer I was a DOS developer. I have been a Windows developer for many, many years.

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