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Column from PC Magazine: Will Apple Adopt Windows? — If you haven’t noticed, last week my column on Apple possibly adopting Windows arrived on the scene. It was written as an exercise in possibilities. Will it happen? Maybe, Maybe not. But you can make a case for it being in the works and that’s what I did. Unfortunately the nutty Mac fringe got all bent out of shape as if this column had anything to do with whatever happens one way or the other. If I was on the board of Apple and was suggesting this that should be done then it would be different. But this is a column in a PC-centric magazine about PC’s and Windows. But apparently these whack jobs (and it is a very small but vocal minority within the whole Macintosh audience) felt it necessary to besmirch me and rant about what an idiot I am. Some of the email (and posts) was definitely from psychopaths who need to be profiled by the FBI. At least the cartoon is funny! That was a plus.

I’m perpetually baffled by the fact that all these dissenters keep reading these columns like moths to a flame and claim they’ll never read me again. Then they write long-winded diatribes about why I am wrong. It usually deteriorates into personal attacks. I’m sure the prof cited in the article is getting some weird grief from certain students. Being a professor of psychology perhaps he can explain this nutball fringe.

The irony to all this is that I’m a proponent of PC’s switching to OS-X.

The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University, who wrote to me convinced that the process had already begun. I was amused, but after mulling over various coincidences, I’m convinced he may be right.