Okay, I don't normally blog about technology but I do have a category tab for "Web/Tech" that I don't remember ever using. This caught my eye today and made me chuckle--it reminded me of my wife, who cares little for my installation of Vista on our home desktop:
(Computerworld) -- Apple Inc.'s CEO Steve Jobs compared Windows to hell in an on-stage conversation with the Wall Street Journal's personal technology columnist Walt Mossberg at the newspaper's D: All Things Digital conference yesterday.
After Mossberg asked Jobs about the popularity of Apple's iTunes music store software and Jobs said more than 300 million copies were in circulation, Mossberg replied: "So that makes you an enormous Windows software developer".
"We are," said Jobs.
"How does that make you feel?"
"We've got cards and letters from lots of people that say iTunes is their favorite app on Windows," Jobs said, then shrugged, paused and smiled. "It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell,"...
Sure, at first there were some bugs to work out on my Vista installation--you may recall me blogging (complaining) about it late last year--and also, sure enough, iTunes didn't work on it at all for a month or two. However, that's all fixed. I found my Vista incompatible software and removed it; I was tired of it anyhow. Vista works fine now. Furthermore, I like it--a lot--and I wouldn't go back (though for now I'm keeping XP on my laptop out of sentimentality).
I learned computers on a Mac Classic and for years I swore that I would always be a Mac man, but somewhere down along the way I found myself trying to right-click too many times. I wrote all my grad school and seminary papers on my Mac using Write Now software, but eventually its 40 Mb hard drive filled up. I've asked my techie friends how I might save that stuff to a Windows format but they just scratch their heads.
I've learned that in the inferno of technology ice water comes in handy in a lot of different places.
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