"Microsoft had my allegiance back in the Tablet PC days because they won it when those much maligned devices provided a better, more productive way to do my work."
Uhm... better than what, exactly? And what years is he referring to? Is he referring to the awful Surface tablets?
I started using Linux in 1996/7, and switched to using it as my main OS ~2000. Because I found I could turn on my computer, and just get work done.
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