Insert a DVD movie into a Windows computer and it informs you to purchase a $15 plug-in for Windows Media Player to enable DVD playback functions. If you’re lucky, that copy of Nero or Roxio you bought to burn ISO files also has a DVD player application.

Macintosh includes DVD Player which starts up when you insert a DVD movie. Free, easy.

I perform computer consulting in my part-time - a 99% Windows world. I switched to Mac and haven’t skipped a beat except for Microsoft Access which is the worst database package in existence anyway.

Everything I can do with Windows I can do with Mac - better. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Quicken, Photoshop. And now I’ve got a full blown UNIX operating system with the ease of the Mac GUI and none of the hassles of Linux compatibility.

Every day I use the Mac I understand why it’s a better OS. Mostly little things that Windows users have long ignored because they think there is nothing else. For anyone wondering, here is the classic profile of a Windows user:
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Another do-over.

I dreaded looking at that PostNuke site because it reminds me of the complexity in my life and the things I haven’t finished yet. PostNuke is one of those things so big, so complex, that you’ll spend more time tweaking it than actually producing anything with it. Better put, why spend time on activities that don’t really contribute to the final goal?

Thus the switch to WordPress. Simple, clean. Just the facts ma’am.