Living la vida Mac

Oh dear, they're at it again.

Nothing can stir up a good fight in the tech world better than the age-old "Mac vs. Windows" controversy. The latest kerfuffle has been sparked by an article in Computerworld where a Windows expert discusses the steps he's taking to convert to OS X.

The piece is an excerpt from an upcoming newsletter by Scot Finnie, who states that while he likes Windows Vista, he's become "increasingly disturbed by the many ways Microsoft is willing to erode the overall user experience, in most cases in the name of boosting its bottom line." So he's decided to do a test run of switching his life completely to Mac.

So, if he's decamping to Apple, what got the Mac fans' dander up? Apparently it's a sentence near the end of the piece, where he states that he expects "to wrap up with a final assessment of whether the Mac is a viable alternative for real people with real jobs."

Apparently, Mac fans don't like the implication that they, or their jobs, are imaginary.

Blog community response:

"Gee, thanks, Scot, for letting all of us current Mac users know that we apparently aren't real people and we don't have real jobs. We eagerly await your validation."
--The Apple Blog

"Dude. Real people with real jobs? Come on. Windows is used in many corporate environments, but it doesn't have a lock on 'real people with real jobs'. Just a bit insulting."
--MacUser

"The implication of his statement is that it's an unknown. If current Mac users already were 'real people with real jobs' (we are), it wouldn't make any sense to ask the question, since the answer would already have been well established (it is, but he implies it isn't)."
--Digg comment