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Does Your Computer’s Operating System Still Matter?

11:30PM Gina Trapani | New York Times writer Joe Nocera argues that the Windows operating system doesn’t matter any more, because webapps are rendering all operating systems irrelevant. He asks: Do you really care anymore which operating system you use? I don’t. For years, I owned both a PC and a Mac. I could use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Apple’s Safari or Mozilla’s Firefox, more or less interchangeably, to access the Internet. I could write an article on one computer, send it via an email message to the other one, and it worked just fine. [...] Even my teenage sons, who stuck with Windows because most computer games were written for PCs, stopped caring. They could play games over the Internet, and all the most popular games were made for the Mac as well. More »