I’d like to wrap up this series with the funny ironies I see between the Microsoft and Apple camps.
- It’s ironic that big business doesn’t switch yet spends gobs of money on IT solving viruses and other problems that go away with Apple.
- It’s ironic that Apple doesn’t make a more feature-competitive business suite to challenge Microsoft Office.
- It’s ironic that Apple has so very many cheap or no cost add-ons yet has no database or built-in programming functionality on the scale of VBA (Visual Basic for Applications, the macro language of the Office Suite) or .Net.
- It’s ironic that users of Microsoft windows use or would prefer using the Apple OS over Microsoft Windows yet they’re not given a choice by the corporate world.
- It’s ironic that so very many employees use Windows at work yet use Apple at home.
- It’s ironic that when the time comes when big business will finally decide to move to Windows 7 or some other future version of Windows that they won’t do a full cost benefit analysis and compare that to Apple. I’d bet that Apple would be less expensive when this magic time comes even though, ironically, their computer are more expensive.
As for me, I’ve made the switch to Apple as an OS but will keep using the Microsoft Office Suite for my work. I say that today, but don’t be surprised if I switch to iWorks in the future… if nothing else, to just leave the Microsoft-centric world entirely.
John Simpson, MAI
