Yeah they did. Not mentioning names (or companies) but they did.

I have to agree with you on why your company would use windows machines and indeed this is not a reason for my departure and this post should not be taken as rant against my previous employer. They were very good to me and I thank them so much for how they have helped me find out where I was going and doing with my life. Just want to make that very very clear.

As for macs, yeah they suck at backing up and integrating into a normal windows system. Hopefully leopard should help with that, although the time machine feature looks a little vomit inducing. Macsaren’t for everybody, indeed the Linux guy sitting opposite me at the moment takes the rip out of the apple logo all the time and justified at times. Oh and shit yeah they are expensive.

I still have a trusty, if a little explosive, dell laptop sitting besides me for visual basic and for office things, as open office stillisn’t right for mactels. But for developing on, textmate for those that have yet to jump into the INSANE world of emacs does the job really well. It could be just be a ruby on rails thing.

Although for the odd bit of php I tend to jump onto the dell and notepad++ for old times sake for the very reason that windows file share is just so damn easy.

Good to here from you and I hope you are well.

The main reason we don’t use Macs are because (a) they are far more expensive per MIPS, (b) we use Visual Basic for desktop development (c) they play hell with our backups and generally don’t fit into a homogenous Windows network (which we have)…

http://www.qwertyrash.com/archives/switching-to-mac-useful-sites-and-articles/