Reason #1
What really kicked it for me was having to “prove” that the Dell Re-install version of Windows was a Genuine copy of Windows. To be told I was a pirate just because I was re-installing Windows due to the lack of security that Microsoft has in Windows was pretty much the final straw.
There is always some story behind each switch and Dave Metzener was happy to share his experience and reasons for choosing a Mac. Checkout his story and find out what happened in 1979: Vista was the last straw!.
Reason #2
One of my friends couldn’t understand why I didn’t just buy a cheaper HP. I tried to explain that it was not about cost, but rather about what I wanted in a machine. I didn’t want to buy a laptop that I could just afford, I wanted to buy one that I “wanted”.
I am a big fan of SEOMoz.org, a Search Engine Optimization community where I learnt a lot about SEO from great content they publish at the website. When I found out that one of the SEOMoz staff members switched to a Mac, I got in touch with him to ask about his story. What is interesting, Mel Gray has not switched from Windows. Here is what happened: Switching from Linux to OS X.
It was a very busy week in the tech world with Linux Ubuntu: Hardy Heron released and a lot of publicity around Microsoft and Apple quarterly results. There were also discussions if MacOS should be open and if Live Mesh from Microsoft is the new virtual system.
But what is really interesting came with the end of the week. According to Alex Curylo, we are going to have an enterprise switcher soon:
Salesforce.com is giving Macs to all employees. Yup, all 4000 of us; we are going to be one of the largest enterprise software Mac shops around. As the leases come up for the Dells, IT is replacing with Macs.
And why, you ask, Security! The resources it takes to defend against all the stuff the baddies throw at a PC, it
I am proud to announce that the first switch story has been published on SwitchStories.com. It is great news as finally we can present the content this website was created for. Lee wrote a fantastic piece about his experience when switching from Windows to MacOS X. It is quite detailed and it covers a few months of the time he spent with his new operating system and machine. The story is very nice to read and I am sure you will enjoy it as I did:
I have been a PC user all my life. I have known Mac users and for as long as I can remember have been taking the p*ss out of them for one reason or another. In fact, I can’t actually think of a day that went by when I had nothing to say that was derogatory to my colleague with the Mac.
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Welcome to Switch Stories and be my GUEST! I am glad you are spending a few minutes of your precious time and pay attention to the site that has just been launched. I created it because I wanted to gather many switch stories together in one place. I believe we should have a choice when picking an operating system, internet browser or email application. I am also sure that there are more options that just one for each category. Next to switch stories you have hand-picked news and videos that will allow you to find out more about the piece of software you consider switching to.
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