Macintosh owners have an interesting alternative, Hypercard, created by Bill Atkinson and released in 1987.

However, the growing reality is that many Macintosh owners live in environments where Windows users are the majority, particularly in offices.

Other Macintosh owners have reported envy when they see colleagues sneak in a game of Windows solitaire on the laptop at a business meeting.

These are not trivial requirements, and it is unclear how many Macintosh owners have such resources.

Macintosh owners know that almost any word-processing or publishing software they buy will work with whatever monitor they attach to the Mac.

But it has no plans to offer a version of the program for Macintosh owners.

The company also cited data that indicates 40 percent of the customers making purchases in the Apple stores are not current Macintosh owners.

Macintosh owners using Internet Explorer can also rearrange their Favorites list.

It is long on description and short on practical tips, but the descriptions will give any Macintosh owner a thorough understanding of the machine.

They have attracted a tremendous amount of attention from the nation's six million Macintosh owners.