...You would have never been able to convince me that I would be working on a Mac laptop (having shelved a super-powered G5 because the new Intel chips on the MacBooks are actually fast enough) and installing Microsoft Office on an OS that is nothing close to being Windows (underneath the hood).
The scene from Old School comes to mind where Will Ferrel has just been shot in the neck by a horse tranquilizer dart and says, in a drug induced, slurred voice, "you're craaazyyy maaannn... you're craaaazzzyy"
Flash forward to 2006 and here we are. I'm running Windows XP in Parallels faster than it runs on my ThinkPad x40, installing Office 2000 under an emulation layer from CodeWeavers and still doing all of the Mac'y things that I have come to love (listen to iTunes, work on 10 terminals at once, keep up with friends and colleagues in chat programs, and keep track of the latest news on the web). I use Windows 2000/XP/Server from time to time and to be quite honest, I am finding Apple's direction of OS X to become more and more Windows-like from the standpoint of bloat (Dashboard, anyone?). From the standpoint of stability and lack of viruses, OS X still shines, however. Either way, I never thought I'd be doing what I'm doing today (September 1, 2006) and it opens my eyes to the possibilities in the future ahead of us. Between the virutalization boom I'm experiencing with Parallels and VMWare (silently running ESX Infrastructure 3 on a converted server) and the power of processors, it is likely that we won't be so much dependent upon specific OS's in the future, rather specific software.
Too bad what is most used, though, is the worst in regards to bugs and bloat... If only we could tackle that one.
