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19 Jul, 2009 7:02pm

Random Guy I Met Today: So you know computer security, huh? Have you ever seen a Mac?
Me: Uh, yeah. Why?
Guy: I just got one. What the hell was I doing running Microsoft for 20 years? I swear this country deserves to go to hell. GM damn near died and Microsoft is next on the block. GM can't make a frickin' car that gets more than than 10 miles a gallon and Microsoft can't run my computer without getting popups and shit make me reinstall everything twice a month!
Me: (A little stunned by this unexpected rant.) Uh, yeah. It's a pretty solid system. We run...
Guy: I haven't seen a popup since I bought this thing. Unbelievable. Could barely surf the web before I bought this thing.
Me: Well, you could probably could have downloaded Firefox and...
Guy: Guy at Best Buy promised I'd never need Norton again or see another popup. He was right. Everything just works. Yeah, I can get a Dell laptop for five hundred bucks less, but Apple charges more for their computers for the same reason Toyota charges more for a Camry. You get what you pay for. You get what you pay for. So who do you know who'll buy this house?
Me: Uh...
This happened. Guy was a realtor, as average a joe as you could imagine. Rant totally came out of nowhere and caught me completly off-guard. (He's totally right, though.) Microsoft has some huuuge problems right now.

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