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Windows to Mac Migration Guide/Advice?
Harpa wonders: "Having spent more years than I care to count living and working with various Windows machines, I'm about to get my first Apple (an iBook). While eagerly waiting for the machine to be shipped, I'm starting to realize that changes I'm going to have to deal with may involve more than getting used to one less mouse button!I'm wondering if any Slashdot folk can help. What does an old-time Windows user have to learn/unlearn? To what extent can my Apple live happily with my existing PC's, my printer, my network? Everything I've found so far seems to be either geared for people who've never used a computer before or for existing Mac users. Is there any info available that supports us 'converts'?"
Of course you don't get BSOD in XP. Microsoft removed it because of bad PR. You know those times in XP when your computer just spontaneously restarts out of nowhere right in the middle of that lovely document you were composing? Well, you just had a blue screen of death.
MS just figured, since there's nothing you can do with a BSOD except restart anyway, they'd just remove the screen part, and automatically reboot the computer for you.
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