During my six month hiatus I worked exclusively on my mac and I didn’t have a single crash or problem with the OS; I had a very happy computing experience. Flash forward to my new job with a brand new dell with Windows XP and I’ve already experienced:

1. a repeated blue screen of death upon boot up of my computer caused by who knows what.

2. a sluggish computer which periodically displays an hour glass for minutes on end for no apparent reason.

3. a horrible web browser – the company standard is IE6 and it sucks!

4. primitive tools for finding files on my computer.

But my frustration doesn’t stop there because Microsoft has wrapped it’s tentacles around my University.  The school uses Blackboard for online courses and guess what…..it’s not compatible with Mac for some odd reason…hmm…..I wonder why.   Fortunately someone tuned me to the fact that I could install a User Agent on my browser and make Blackboard think I’m using IE6 and lo and behold it worked fine!  So yeah it works fine but not without getting a bitching prompt saying that it’s not really sure I’m on Windows with a windows browser but it’ll let me do it anyway!

So there is no real reason why Blackboard shouldn’t work with a Mac other than Microsoft is a real a**hole.