Asta la Vista - Baby…

Today I am typing my first post here in active|rain on my formally Microsoft stained fingers. Hallelujah!! Today I have gone ‘cold turkey’ and kicked the habit… the Microsoft habit that is.

Having been a PC person since, 1983, I have been through the whole gambit of operating systems that MS had to offer starting with the very early days of DOS… Some systems were better than others with XP probably being one of their best accomplishments in my view.

Yes, there were some challenges. One of my biggest peeves was with the idiot who came up the pop-up balloons at the system tray. UG! This guy needs to have an emergency vasectomy done to stop the spread of that gene pool and the idiot who came up with the annoying system restart after windows does an update needs to have the same procedure. However, whoever came up with the brilliant idea for Vista needs a total brain transplant… they do those don’t they?

One of the major deciding factors of going with a Mac was Microsoft’s stance on Vista v/s XP. As most of you know, that as of 1 July, MS will no longer sell XP as an operating system on new computers and will no longer do any development on that operating system. The only way that you can get XP is for the manufacturer to FIRST purchase Vista then purchase XP to load on the computer. This sux big time… So instead of investing in a new PC with Vista (gag) I made the decision to say, "Asta la Vista – Microsoft" and go iMac. So Bill... Take your vista and shove it...

Yes, the Mac OSX leopard system does take some getting used to... it only took me 15 minutes to figure how to turn the &^%$!# thing off. Hopefully, the learning curve will not be too steep as I go through the transformation from PC to Mac.

Any way if any of you Mac users have any tips for this formally ‘PC’ junkie, please, please let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated… as they say south of the border ‘Much Grass’!