"Dear John" letters are never easy to write. Unless you're a multi-national electronics corporation, that is. Man, If only I could have ended relationships the same way that Apogee Electronics recently ended theirs with Microsoft Windows, but sending out a press release. Dig this cold number:

"As of 2009, Apogee Electronics will no longer develop products for the Microsoft Windows platform. Apogee has made this decision in order to focus all research, development, and support resources on the Apple platform with its unparalleled power and stability. Apple offers a wide range of affordable, powerful desktop and laptop solutions ideally suited for music creation and audio production."

I.e., listen, Windows, I'm with this new girl, see? And she's got all tho right moves and makes me feel groovy, so it's splitsville for us.

"Apogee will continue to develop and manufacture premium converters, microphone preamplifiers, clocking solutions, and supporting technologies that provide world-class solutions for Mac-based production environments."

Man, that's cold, Apogee. You couldn't just say "it's over"? You had to go and rub your new, happy relationship in Windows's face?

"Windows users can obtain the Apogee sound by connecting Apogee converters to their Windows-compatible audio interface via AES, optical, or S/PDIF. Apogee technical support will continue to support legacy Windows configurations installed on Windows XP Service Pack 2."

Consolation, condescension. . .it's so hard to tell the difference sometimes. I wouldn't expect Windows to ever talk to Apogee again after a brush-off like that.