makes me wonder as well how many purchases were lost due to FUD apple was going out of business any year now.

I heard of another Japanese bank that did this a year or so ago. You have to wonder, did they just see the benefits of OS X or did they have some horrible security problem with windows that spurred them to take action.

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I heard of another Japanese bank that did this a year or so ago. You have to wonder, did they just see the benefits of OS X or did they have some horrible security problem with windows that spurred them to take action?

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and then they get blackmailed to keep the incident quiet.

Before OS X it was indeed a bitch to have windows and macs share a network, even though Appletalk was relatively well supported. Ironic given the fact that macs were very easy to hook up into a network before PC's even had the feature.

And price was a big incentive to go with windows only networks, also given the clutter and needless traffic macs caused. Talk with any mac friendly IT person and he/she'll explain this in boring detail to you.

This has nothing to do with Windows sucking bigtime or with IT being against macs, those are known issues. OS X has solved a lot of issues and still is. There are still some things that are less problematic in a windows/unix/linux network when you don't have to take macs into account. And IT doesn't necessarily have to be sympathetic to all the reasons to go with macs, unless management sees it that way as well.

I've always struggled to keep using macs in the workplace and in hindsight am grateful to all IT personnel that kept up with me. It wasn't easy. It is profoundly gratifying to see some of them sporting mac laptops now

And I am a smug bastard, saying "I told you so" even though I know full well that today it's a completely different situation...

Here's to that Japanese bank, hopefully more will follow!