This was proven... well, less then truthful. John Gruber spells out the details in this article. Just as John says, the story is now 404.

The Slashdot story here follows up on this.

On another note: a lot of my friends said they used Macs back in elementary school - and then got a PC in high school. Fair enough - but a fair number of them are still remembering their experiences with System 7 (no memory-protection, might be less-then-stable, running on SEs that just barely could handle it) with their experiences with Windows 2000/XP.

I don't go comparing my Grandfather's Model A with today's Ford Escort, do I?

On the other hand, a fair number of my more technically oriented friends are buying Macs - unix under the hood, they're stable, and OS X doesn't fight you with driver settings or BIOS or whatever like Windows can.