I used to work for a state government department, and that department was all Mac, including their webservers. Our website was the only website that was 'complaint' with Federal and State Laws, as all other departments used Windows.

Well, I blew the legal whistle, and very loud at that, especially since 2 of the most significant departments' websites crash/burned in Safari (at the time).

Politicians didn't like it. Not one bit. Neither did the Windows-based IT head honchos of the other 23 state departments.
Employment dismissal 'warnings' (from higher-ups in other depts) came my way in monthly state-level IT mtgs. To me, these were illegal threats, based on both Federal and State whistle-blower laws. I grabbed as many legal whistles as could fit in my legal mouth and blew all the harder: Our state websites ARE NOT technologically compliant based on our own state and also federal laws. 75% of all documents available to taxpayers were in MSWord, Excel or MSPowerPoint, a 'private company-based application' which (at the time) had no publicly available free version to enable the tax-paying public to access the document(s).

So, what happened?
1) For the 17+ years the smaller dept. used Mac, not a single virus or significant data loss (workstation or server) occurred. Within 2 months of 'going Windows', 2 users lost all their data.

2) One of the 2 significant depts 'merged' with my dept, of which the larger dept. ditched all the Macs to 'incorporate' their platform choice. They assigned me a windows-based job that they knew I did not have experience to perform. They then 'released' me from employ because I could not perform assigned duties.

3) Sued the State, the Dept, and my bigger dept. managers in local, state and federal court for violating Whistle-Blower laws. Settled out of court within months: For a simple bit of money, a boat-load of open and very public apologies (sent to all 24 state department heads to open an H.R. file in my name and insert it), total physical and virtual purge of my H.R. records with all the bad stuff, and an entry into the H.R. file of each manager, from my immediate up to the head department gal, qualifying their malicious intent to illegally dismiss me.

4) That bigger department then 'unmerged' with the smaller dept. a few years later (IMHO it was more like a much sought divorce by the smaller dept), yet the smaller dept. now has Windows.

Total taxpayer cost to ''convert' to windows (or, 'ditch' the Macs):
$7.25 million state and federal taxpayer dollars.

Sorry, can't reveal which state or person(s) were involved due to out of court settlements, and I 100% trust MacObserver will protect the identity of the (IP address) source of this posting.

When my oldest son started college we had to fill out the FAFSA online. (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) They ONLY accepted IE and Netscape. AND it had to be the latest version of IE (which wasn't available to the Mac). They've finally opened it up to FireFox & Safari. Took them long enough!

When my oldest son started college we had to fill out the FAFSA online. (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) They ONLY accepted IE and Netscape. AND it had to be the latest version of IE (which wasn't available to the Mac). They've finally opened it up to FireFox & Safari. Took them long enough!