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volcan said:

wizard69 said:

 I’ve seen first hand just how bad MS based solutions are and the support structure to keep them running.  

We use Macs for everything except our accounting software which has been running on Windows for more than 20 years. Just for the sake of legacy compatibility we still use Windows in that department. I have no issues with Windows 10. It works fine in my opinion, but for our programming, publishing and design projects we are all Mac. I haven't upgraded anything to Catalina yet due to various issues that have been reported.

The former CEO of Apple's software subsidiary, Claris, back in the day, buddy of Steve Jobs and Chair of Apple's board until his death a few years back was William Campbell. After Apple pulled Claris back into the main company and dissolved Claris in the 90s, Campbell went on to become the CEO of Intuit, the maker of Quickbooks. After a stint as CEO he became a board member at Intuit. All this time he was on the board of Apple. In all that time Intuit couldn't get out a Mac version of QB that was multi-user, could trade files with a PC-using accountant or be even remotely feature-comparable with the Windows version.

I blame Campbell personally for the loss of countless millions of unit sales of Apple computers when he really could have made a difference. Companies that actually liked Macs, but had to make a decision so they didn't have to support two OSes (a problem proved imaginary by IBM's experience) had to go with PCs because someone in the company HAD to use QuickBooks and the Mac versions never crawled out from the swamp they wriggled around in. I used to write on my Apple stock proxy voting materials on the reelection of board members page, "Everyone but BILL CAMPBELL!" Then the guy went and died and now I feel a little bad. Just a little.