One of the most passionate but pointless little conflicts isn’t going on in some unknown banana republic or between mindless celebrities who used to be married to one another. Like the conflicts in Northern Ireland (or the north of Ireland) and Israel (or Palestine) – choose the noun you prefer – the origins of this war are lost in the past and don’t really matter anymore. All that remains is mistrust, antipathy and egotism, and for anyone else looking in the entire thing would seem totally incomprehensible. The war in question is that between advocates of the various operating systems, most notably between Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh users.

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