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Why would anybody with a sane mind want to infect their computer with anything produced by Microsoft. Really, are people that f-ing stupid?


8 posted on 08/13/2015 7:35:09 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper (Mi baol ach dom olcas mise)
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To: big'ol_freeper
> Why would anybody with a sane mind want to infect their computer with anything produced by Microsoft. Really, are people that f-ing stupid?

Simple! Because -IF- someone wants to run Windows 10, the very best hardware platform to run it on is often a Mac.

Moreover, running in BootCamp, Windows gets a set of Apple-written Windows drivers that not only take care of the Apple/Mac hardware peripherals, they also provide the ability to read the Mac HFS+ disk partition that runs the Mac part (read-only). And since the Mac can read the Windows NTFS partition, it can be extremely handy for file transfers, conversion, etc.

BootCamp is terrific.

12 posted on 08/13/2015 8:47:05 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: big'ol_freeper

“Why would anybody with a sane mind want to infect their computer with anything produced by Microsoft....”
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Probably, like me, they’ve not been able to COMPLETELY “cut the MS apron strings”.

The ONLY Microsoft thing we have on our home iMacs is “Office Mac 2011”. And I’m the only one in the family, I think, that uses it. The only thing I use is Excel. I’m sure that Apple’s “Numbers” equivalent can do all that Excel can do (and possibly more and/or better) but I am an Excel power user and know many of its hacks. Maybe one day (actually “days” would likely be needed) I’ll set aside some quite time and try to figure out how to get Numbers to do all the things I can do with Excel. Then I’ll be able to cut that sole remaining thread linking me to MS.


13 posted on 08/13/2015 9:36:09 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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