“Microsoft doesn’t make computers. And when you buy an Apple, you are supporting both Apple AND Microsoft.
You’ve said that several times. What ARE you talking about??”
Ok, I’ll slow down again. M I C R O S O F T D O E S N O T M A K E C O M P U T E R S. Apple makes computers. What part of this do you NOT understand?
Go to wikipedia, or something if you cannot understand this. I mean really, how hard it is to understand. Do you think that Microsoft is churning out computers at some secret location and then slapping Dell stickers on them?
There is a difference between an Operating System:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
and a Computer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
for someone who has “been there”, I would think you would know this.
“How does buying a Mac support Microsof texcept in an extremely minor way”
Chances are, unless you are like many Mac users, and just look at screen savers, move music around (speaking of which, I was so thrilled that my wifes Apple could finally drag and drop, what it took Apple 20 years to make this great development?), chat on Facebook with your grandkids, play tetris or whatever, you will need this as well:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/buy
Well, that is once a Mac user gets over the hurdle of plugging the machine in, they may develop enough self confidence to actually use Office. (btw, that is sarcasm, does yellow make you sad?)
I'm still trying to figure out why YOU think that a Mac user HAS to have anything to do with Microsoft at all???
Chances are, unless you are like many Mac users, and just look at screen savers, move music around (speaking of which, I was so thrilled that my wifes Apple could finally drag and drop, what it took Apple 20 years to make this great development?), chat on Facebook with your grandkids, play tetris or whatever, you will need this as well: (link to MS Office for Mac page)
Apple produces it's own operating system for the Mac computers, not Microsoft. Apple invented the graphical UI Drag and Drop, and GUI cut and paste, in the first implementation of MacOS and in fact Microsoft PAYS Apple a a few pennies royalty to be able to use it in Windows and in Microsoft Office and other MS software that utilizes drag and drop as do all other software companies that use drag and drop.
As for "needing" Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, Apple makes an excellent package called iWorks'09 that includes Pages, a Word compatible word processor, Numbers, an Excel compatible spreadsheet, and Keynote, a superior presentation package that replaces PowerPoint and will play PP presentations. So, you are again hoist on your petard. It is perfectly possible to run a Microsoft free Mac! I do.
Ignorance is curable, Esox. I'm trying to cure you.