12 Month Windows

I understand absolute hate. I absolutely hated Windows for decades for various reasons before I ran my (failed) experiment. I don't hate it anymore, but I've also found that it's not for me. That said, I'm still trying to wrap my head around why some people hate Apple so much. So while I understand it, I still don't understand it - if that makes sense. I can understand preferring Windows over Apple because of software titles or personalization possibilities such as skins, but I don't understand the pure hatred that's directed at them. Back in my younger days, as a teen and young adult, I would vehemently declare my hatred toward everything Windows. I would talk about how Microsoft stole this that and the other from Apple. I got older, I read up on things and later came to the conclusion that while Microsoft may have stolen from Apple, Apple took a few things from Xerox back in the early days. Tech companies like to steal from each other - it's ...

I lasted about 2.5 months, give or take, on the experiment that was supposed to last 12. As of this moment, I am typing this entry on my MacBook Air which replaces the Lenovo I had purchased for the experiment. Now let me say here that I'm not dissing Lenovo in any way. The system was everything it was advertised to be, but it couldn't be what I needed it to be and when I upgraded to Windows 8.1, it failed. I honestly don't have the time to deal with attempting to fix issues, hunt down drivers and manually patch things up that seems to be par for the course with Windows Machines. I'm retracting anything I said regarding Windows when I started out on this experiment, but I am going to provide some further insights I've had since my last post. I went into this experiment because people hated Windows 8 with such a passion I wanted to see what all the hate was about. Jumping from Mac to Windows 8 wasn't that difficult in most regards. The interface found on ...