No one is playing the holy wars game here. However, us Mac users and /. readers, are blaming this on a developer recently hired by Apple, on compassionate ground to support the developer and his family. Rumors have it that this developer used to work for MS, on the Windows.

I live on the international space station you insensitive clod!

This is an age old questions, was asked on /.s several times. Here is one from 2005: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/01/2145223&tid=117&tid=98&tid=4