1/ My one-year Windows 10 experiment is over and the results are in. I'm back to Apple and staying there. A thread.

1. The integration between iPhone, macOS, Apple Watch runs rings around anything Windows 10 and Samsung Galaxy phone/watch can achieve.

2. I went large: Dell XPS, Galaxy Note Ultra, Galaxy Watch 3. I wanted to give Windows and Android the best possible chance. Apple Pay works everywhere. Google Pay works lots of places. Samsung Pay is rubbish. Google Pay isn't available on the Galaxy Watch because turf war.

3/ which left me with Google Pay on the (Samsung Galaxy) phone and Samsung Pay on the (Samsung Galaxy) watch, each of which is incompatible with different subsets of my credit and debit cards.

4. eSIM on the Galaxy Watch 3. Doesn't Work™. At least not on O2. Got an eSIM from

4/ their physical store. Didn't work. Phoned online support. Told they can only help with an eSIM from the online store. Ordered one of those. Didn't work. Got a new iPhone 12. Charged up my old Watch 4. Paired. Enabled eSIM. Works.

5/ I never thought the things I would miss

the most would be the Mail, Calendar and Preview apps. Outlook is truly dreadful. Not "a bit rubbish" dreadful. Utterly take it outside and bury it in a fiery pit dreadful. And the new Windows Mail and Calendar apps are comically simplistic and buggy. Who is product managing

this trainwreck? With a work laptop the place you will spend a _lot_ of your time is in email and calendar, and a _lot_ of documents are PDFs. Without installing gigabytes of Adobe bloatware I have to figure out that _some_ free PDF apps support "preview in Outlook" but then they

don't allow basic editing of the PDF (rearrange or delete pages, mark or sign a document, etc.). I missed you Preview.

Back to Outlook. I have S/MIME certificates. Setting up S/MIME in Outlook with Exchange 365 is a table-thumping joke. I'm technical. It Doesn't Work™. The same

use case in macOS? If you have certificates in the keychain that match your mail address, it signs your emails _by default_! Because, you know, you probably want to. (Side note: Exchange 365 only just got plus-addresses last September. WAT?)

Then there's the hardware...

Everything you have heard about the new Apple Silicon is true. The M1 MacBook is a delight. Gestures, multiple desktops, all that, and the responsiveness? Wow. Just dreamy.

So I'm sorry Windows 10. I gave you a decent crack. Office 365 (now Microsoft 365) on macOS is really very

decent now. The Office product team has clearly been working very hard on this. I just wish the same people could jack up Outlook and roll a new product underneath it.

So I'm in an Apple vertical ecosystem with Microsoft suite (sans Outlook) and things are looking rosy.

/ends