From a Computer World article detailing the reasons a CTO switched back to Windows after a stint on the Mac:

Companies that move over to the Mac OS X should expect to spend a lot of time converting data if they decide to move back to Windows, Keanini said.

The CTO said that moving all his data back to the Windows platform took more than week. Among the problems: Contacts and appointments exported from the Mac’s applications had to be cleaned up, he said. Also, there’s no simple way to get e-mail out of the Apple Mail application, he said.

“Today, companies need to be thinking about interoperability,” he said. “It’s the users’ data, not the vendor’s data.”

This genius needs to go to Logics class. Sure, the data interoperability issues exist. They were there when he switched to the Mac as well. It’s called “being locked in a proprietary system” and it has some good parts and some bad parts. But his data didn’t just ‘work’ when he switched to the Mac either, so the formulation is completely out of whack.

I wouldn’t want to work for this guy. As a CTO, shouldn’t he also worry about backups and, more importantly, backup recovery? Wouldn’t data interoperability matter then as well?

I don’t want to come off as a blind fanboy: I am aware Apple has lock-ins, at times more perverse than Microsoft’s. It is just that the premise of Apple having to make sure all your Windows stuff works flawless on it is, well, idiotic. It is not only their fault you cannot do it — Microsoft has equal blame in the matter. I don’t understand the bias in the article but it smells like headline-grabbing rot to me.

More in-depth ‘analysis’ from the Macalope here.