“European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer”.

I trust in the spirit of fair competition, Apple is also going to remove Safari from OS X, meaning Mac users will also need to download a browser before they can look at websites?

I have to admit I’m not an Apple fan at all – I’ve always considered their products overpriced compared with their competitors, my experience of using Macs has been, despite the almost cult-like claims of their proud owners, that they crash just as much as Windows boxes, and they have just the same issues of useability and opaqueness of completing simple tasks that Windows offers. The only thing I would say your average Mac has over your average PC is that it looks sexier. Which is of course very important on your average untidy office desk.

‘But’, I hear you say, ‘what about corporate social responsibility? We all know how evil and anti-competitive The Borg is, whereas those nice people at Apple all eat organic food, donate lots to charity, and don’t wear leather or wool’.

Erm, yes. What’s not very widely known is that Apple co-founder and head Steve Jobs is also a major shareholder and board member of Disney, themselves not exactly Snow White when it comes to being cuddly bunnies in the corporate environment.

And now there’s this story today, revealing that some workers in the Chinese plant which manufactures the iPod regularly work longer than 60-hour weeks. Apple were quoted as finding that excessive, and taking steps to enforce a ‘normal’ 60-hour week.

Excuse me? A 60-hour week normal??? I’m glad I don’t work for Apple!