Microsoft keeps emailing me to try to persuade me to pay my subscription to their Partner Program. They point out the many benefits, including the offer of a discounted Windows 7.

I have decided to decline; for the first time since 1995 I am not going to get the latest version of their operating system.

That’s it for Windows products. I will continue to support existing clients with XP and VISTA, but any new clients who have Windows 7 I will decline.

Apple Mac users will, of course, be very welcome and I support all versions of the OS from 9 through to 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Mostly it was fun Microsoft, but quite a lot was dreadful.