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Title: Apple fans: Microsoft is no longer the enemy
Post by: HCK on March 27, 2013, 03:01:07 pm
Apple fans: Microsoft is no longer the enemy
   




   

While I was visiting the Microsoft campus a few weeks ago—in suburban Redmond, just across Lake Washington from my beloved Seattle—I kept thinking of the old Vulcan proverb: “Only Nixon can go to China.”


If Microsoft is China, then that makes me Nixon in this story, I realize.

Prelude to war

The TRS-80


Just as Nixon was an old Cold Warrior, I’m a veteran of the Apple/Microsoft war. My first computer was an Apple II Plus, bought way back in 1980.
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