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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Are You Confident and Demanding Enough to Switch?

If you have switched to a different internet browser does it mean you are an advanced web user? Do you need to be open-minded to go beyond your “default” option when it comes to surfing on the Internet? And finally, what is the difference between people sticking to Internet Explorer and those who choose an alternative option, like Firefox?

Seth Godin, in his latest blog post “Why downloading Firefox is like getting into college” presents some interesting facts that will help us to answer the above questions:

25% of the visitors we track at Squidoo use Firefox, which is not surprising. But 50% of the people who actually build pages on the site are Firefox users. Twice as many.

As he founded Squidoo he is the best guy to present these stats. He continues with a few conclusions:

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