“I was not aware that there were windows only web pages.”
The bane of my work. I do a lot of work on finance sites and over the years more and more proprietary stuff has gotten into MS IE. A ton of Web developers use the proprietary hooks and never bother to test on a Mac. I also have difficulty with webinars, Delta Airlines (although this may have been fixed) and believe it or not CASE Equipment. I HAD to install Parallels and XP to do my job. Sucks.
This is the soft under belly of Mac. Up until two years ago, or so, I had not used a Windows machine in almost two decades. Now 20% of the time! Sucks.
I’ve spent a little time on the wifes macbook now. There are a few issues that I’m sure we’ll iron out but it seems pretty snappy and everything you need is relatively handy. But the bouncy flashy aspects are a little annoying. I’m sure that you can turn them off but Mrs. Doc would kill me.
My biggest fear is that on my next computer Microsoft is going to “borrow” the Mac UI. I turned off all the animation, special effects on Vista but still lost a few of the ways I typically interacted with the UI. I’m afraid they will change everything and I will feel like I am all thumbs like I do on a Mac.
I agree with you change sucks.