"… and still working at Apple" I can't imagine someone from Apple writing a letter like that either, but mostly because OS X, at the time of this writing, was a

"… and still working at Apple" I can't imagine someone from Apple writing a letter like that either, but mostly because OS X, at the time of this writing, was amazing and getting better at a rapid clip, while Windows was its nadir. Are you implying that there would have been reprisal? Because this whole thing happened just a couple years before a notorious incident where Jobs walked into a meeting and asked the Macbook team why the laptops were so inferior to iPads. He was notoriously critical of their own products.