Paul Graham on why Windows is Dead, something I’ve been sensing now for a long while. Interesting quote that will drive the Digg-ers crazy: “The last nail in the coffin came, of all places, from Apple. Thanks to OSX, Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is extremely rare in technology. Their victory is so complete that I’m now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. It was the same in the audience at startup school. All the computer people use Macs now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only does the desktop no longer matter, no one who cares about computers uses Microsoft’s anyway.”
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I have never understood this PC vs. Mac battle, especially now with Macs being built on Intel chipsets. My personal feeling is that if a tool does the job I need it to do, then I will use that tool. If, someday, it makes sense for me to switch to Mac or Linux, then I will do so. Until then, I will just continue to run this XP-based laptop into the ground just like I ran its predecessor, a Win2k laptop, into the ground.