Introduction

Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm a Mac fan through and through. As I type this, I can see six Macs within a radius of ten feet in my home office (and that doesn't count the Xserve I have sitting in a rack at a data center). I've written oodles of articles, books, and ebooks about Mac software, and for the past dozen years or so most of my income has resulted, in one way or another, from my work with Macs. If I had a nickel for every time someone referred to me as "the Mac guy," I could retire today.

And yet, although I've always been candid about my preference for Macs, I'm well versed in Windows, too; for years, I was deeply involved in developing and testing software for both platforms. Whether it's performing an exorcism on ...

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