…I hear/see a lot more jeers than cheers in the Microsoft press rooms and events…

Umm maybe that’s because they make products so shitty even Windows users don’t buy them? (read: Vista)

Daniel Lyons, a rude and inarticulate fellow from what I can gather, apparently thinks that Steve Jobs’s medical records should be published on a daily blog. If not, the media is to blame!

My personal belief is that if Apple can’t thrive without Steve Jobs Apple can’t thrive. If Jobs is that necessary, they are fucked.

The Apple Blog has a lot of links if you want to follow this silly topic around the ‘net. It’s the same old shit — people do not like that other people like Apple. Some weenies make a living at not liking us for liking Apple.

Me thinks thou doth protesteth too much. Daniel Eran Dilger basically rips them up.

I think the Obama comparison is telling. If you really get excited about something, people just can’t resist characterizing it as some sort of fanboy infatuation. They just can’t give us credit for using our brains. It must be some personal failing on our part.

WRONG. Quality is a mysterious thing but we know it when we see it. And, perhaps more importantly, we don’t apologize for seeing it.

I’m very sorry your operating system sucks. I’m sorry that you are willing to put up with the second-rate Windows Empire. I’m really sorry that Steve Jobs is not dying fast enough for you. Please, dear Windows Weenies, go fuck yourself. Thrice.

So they started a site: Save Windows XP.

Microsoft plans to end most sales of Windows XP on June 30, despite a deep reluctance by many business and individuals about moving to Vista. InfoWorld believes such an expensive, time-consuming shift with problematic benefits should not be forced on Windows users, so we have decided to rally XP users to demand that XP be kept available.

I like to point out at times that Apple successfully went from the Motorola chipset to Intel and from the legacy “classic” Mac OS to the modern, unix-based OS with barely a hiccup. Not only did they not create a cry of whiners like those above, people actually had the reverse reaction: they liked it! The evolution of the Macintosh from a 1980’s toy to a modern computing platform has been managed beautifully. It is now just as common to see scientists, engineers, sysadmins with a Mac as designers and web hackers.

But I digress. Let me clear this up for the folks at InfoWorld: XP was a finely polished turd. Vista is really no worse and probably much better. Leave the past behind, folks. Don’t be scared. Change is good. You can handle it. Really, you can.

Or, if you can’t, you can always move to something better. Like say Linux (ok, Cairnarvon?). Or a Mac.