I'm a Mac owner and a XP user. I haven't ever used anything since XP. I have found XP to be stable and reliable (unlike every other version of Windows I ever used). Our firewall at work is very, very effective. I don't think we've had a virus rampant on the WAN or LAN in a year that I know of. The software I use at work runs only on XP because of all of the peripherals that need to have software written specially for them. It's just easier to stay with XP for now. I'm sure it will change. Probably over the next year we'll migrate to whatever is stable out there and then we'll spend a year chasing the unforeseen angry little gremlins.

I prefer the Mac at home because it is simple (to use) and reliable. I haven't used a software manual on a Mac in 10 or 15 years. Even the switch to OS-X was a snap. Each of the iterations since then have been almost without exception, flawless.

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