Celebrity Switchers - David Alison

David Alison who was a hardcore Windows user for 17 years, spent a lot of time to share details of his switch to Mac.

I spent 17 years using Windows, a couple more if you count the experiments with the dreadful Windows/286 & Windows/386. Man real mode sucked. I was a heavy DOS user before that. On Windows I went through 3.0, 3.1, Workgroups, NT 4.0, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 Server and Vista. I had spent countless hours honing my skills with the platform, both as a power user and professional software developer. How would it be possible for someone with my background to switch to a completely new platform and walk away from all of that history?

David was very surprised when his daughter, who was accepted to go to Virigina Tech was required to buy a Macintosh. It came out as a great occasion for him to play around with the new technology.

“I was just tired of Windows. There was nothing about it that really excited me. I waited 5 years for Vista to come around and when it did I was unimpressed. There was nothing that really stood out.”

Enjoy reading David’s exciting story on his blog:
- A hardcore Windows guy gets a Mac
- Mac: After two months of Mac, here’s why I switched
- Why switching to Mac was the right move for me

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