“The pro-Macintosh, anti-Windows movement has been on a low boil for years, but now it seems to be building momentum. The reputation of Apple Computer, which makes Macs, is better than ever. The Apple PowerBook notebook and iMac desktop have been very well-received, and the iPod portable music player is a pop culture phenomenon,” Ian Katz writes for The South Florida Sun-Sentinel in his article, “Mac crowd bashes Windows.”

“But the reason behind the growing support for Macs has less to do with Apple than with the failure of Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser. Microsoft releases security patches for Windows or Internet Explorer at http://www.microsoft.com/security on a nearly weekly basis. Though the updates can be programmed to install themselves automatically, the steady drumbeat of bad security news from Microsoft wears on many users,” Katz writes. “Increasingly, Microsoft’s products seem to reflect the arrogance and sloppiness that comes with being a virtual monopoly.”

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