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but it's bizarre from this side, too:
"the writing job I'm looking at requires using Office. I know there is a Mac version. But they said I'd be working on a PC. Period.... But it's definitely a reality for a writer."
I've been working as a writer and sending my stuff to Windows-using publishers for about 10 years now. If I don't want them to freak out, I do have to disguise my files as PC files--8.doc file names, for instance--but if I do, they don't even know I'm on a Mac. (Meanwhile, I just double-click on anything they send me to open it in Mac Office.) XP made that a lot less of an issue than it used to be. But the point is, it's a non-issue except for people who don't know anything about Macs.
"it's still a PC world... in terms of compatability on the web."
I use Safari and Firefox on the Mac and spend hours on the Web every day, and I don't run into any more incompatible Web sites than I did when I used IE and Firefox on Windows (which I did for a year at a job I had). The incompatibility is usually either a site that was built with proprietary FrontPage extensions, or ones that incorrectly tell you you're using an unsupported browser.
