Hands off our Macs! Over the past year or so, there has been a stream of stories of big corporate accounts deciding to replace their Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes and replace them with Windows machines, but now MacWeek hears that many of them are having second thoughts: the paper reports that General Motors Corp is reconsidering its company-wide directive banning employees from buying Macs for use at work after earlier saying that its 40,000-a-year requirement would in future be standardised on Windows; KPMG Peat Marwick in New York confirmed that it is reconsidering its plan to replace its installed base of 35,000 Macs with Windows machines and instead has asked Apple to help it develop its three- to five-year technology plan; Westinghouse Savannah River Project Co in Aiken, South Carolina is reconsidering its March decision to replace 7,200 Macs with Windows machines; and at Boeing Co’s Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, company officials are believed to have agreed last month to reassess plans to displace as many as 20,000 installed Macs with X Window and Unix machines by 1997 and officials at the Renton, Washington company said they didn’t realise it was a religious decision that would cause uproar among employees One executive was afraid to go to the parking lot alone at night – the reaction was that bad, according to one source, who preferred not to be identified.