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Switching from a Mac to a PC: Five lessons from an Apple fanboy

The Internet is filled with testimonials of people ditching their PC for a hip new Mac. Where once they trudged through stodgy spreadsheets, they now write screenplays and edit flashy videos (if the ads are to be believed). But there's almost no material documenting the opposite experience. Most of the personal switching-to-Windows stories are many years out of date and center around now-obsolete "But you can't play games and none of your software will work!" arguments.
So, here are the top five things an Apple fanboy learned from two months using Windows.

Switching from a Mac to a PC: Five lessons from an Apple fanboy

The Internet is filled with testimonials of people ditching their PC for a hip new Mac. Where once they trudged through stodgy spreadsheets, they now write screenplays and edit flashy videos (if the ads are to be believed). But there's almost no material documenting the opposite experience. Most of the personal switching-to-Windows stories are many years out of date and center around now-obsolete "But you can't play games and none of your software will work!" arguments.
So, here are the top five things an Apple fanboy learned from two months using Windows.
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Is $29 billion missing from Hugo Chavez's Fonden development fund?

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Office software susceptible to attacks from hackers, Microsoft warns
Office 2010 test opens; free Web versions later

The latest update to the popular productivity package takes a shot at Google, offering free web-based companion versions of Word and Excel.