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[Cosmo]

Ok, so a memo from about 9 years ago huh?What a waste of bandwidth.

[tc1953]

When I compare the cost of upgrading to Vista to buying a new Mac, it it is easy to see why this PCWorld subscriber since 1989 is letting his subscription lapse and subscribing to MacWorld.

[jsg55]

Microsoft should stop developing Office for the Mac. It's a tiny market anyway and they can't be making much if any profit on it. Besides, all they get is insults and abuse from most Apple customers in any event. They are under no obligation to continue providing the Office software to Apple users so they should pull it and let the fanboys use Open Office or whatever else there is for Macs.

[WinTard]

Oh, who is doing the considering... ? And who cares... ?

Apple drew first blood with all their blatant perpetual bashing of Microsoft by an army of well-trained monkeys iAMZ... Serves them right!

Please google: Results 1 - 10 of about 119,000 for ridiculous mac ads. (0.25 seconds) to see some gems! Like always for Apple, style over substance. Explains why there are back at square 1 after 33 years of existence spinning in circles, going nowhere.

Apple should grow up! And the same for all the feeble minded iAMZ with HUGE chip over their shoulders all over the world.

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And I don't know why {Apple is} acting like it?s superior. I don't even get it. What are they trying to say??
~ Bill Gates on the ridiculous Mac ads

[Evildave]

Oh, yes. Give OpenOffice.org (StarOffice for the fully supported version) up to 120,000,000 new users, and that much more direct support from developers in the wild.

Good idea! I LIKE IT!

Please, PLEASE 'dump' the Mac, Microsoft! Best idea, EVER!

OpenOffice/StarOffice can go from 40,000,000 users to who knows what in a year or two.

Microsoft has the tiger by the tail, and now they can't let go. They can watch adoption of free open source software grow slowly, or they can 'let go' and watch what happens.

[Evildave]

'Apple Started It', Wintard? This goes WAY back before their cute and successful little commercials.

Microsoft's practices are as indefensible as Standard Oil's were.

The various governments of the world haven't been 'Picking on poor old Microsoft' all of these years just to be 'mean', after all.

http://www.usdoj.gov.../94387.txt.html
http://arstechnica.c...rket-abuses.ars
http://www.informati...cleID=213401732

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CriticismofMicrosoft

[WinTard]

My point is: Who cares about perceptions? I care about reality.

Whether Microsoft is 'attempting' to harm Apple isn't the question. What is incontroversible is that Apple is trying to elevate their inferiority complex, by stepping onto others, by ridiculizing them.

I like OpenOffice and use it on all cross-platforms for interoperability, even under Windows. But specifically on Windows, I also use the original latest and greatest Microsoft Office, that all others are emulating. Don't forget to thank Microsoft for disclosing their specs and putting it into the public domain in the first place.

The best thing about OpenOffice, is that it is free. The second best thing is that it is open source. The third best thing is that it works the same on all platforms.

And for an accurate look at OpenOffice deployments, please look at: http://wiki.services....org/wiki/MajorOpenOffice.orgDeployments

FACT: OpenOffice, will always lag, one step behind the leader and trend setting Microsoft Office. If only for compatibility reasons.

PS: Also the same reason I use FireFox on all platforms. Interoperability. And why not? It's free! To all users, including Windows. Yet I still prefer IE, due to the immaculate font rendering using ClearType technology (especially for mathematical and other symbols) under Windows. My favorite browser? Google's Chrome, simply because it is the fastest. Oh this is a rethrorical question: Under which platform did Chrome appear first? And same applies to all major commercial applications... (Adobe, Quark, you name it). Did you know Wal-Mart's price scanners (made by Motorola) run under Windows? So do the display panels showing ads in elevator buildings... Ironically, how do I know? When it gets stuck at the Windows prompt. Credit where credit is due. Windows works, the app doesn't... And so far, only Windows products are approved in secure governement applications, including Windows Mobile... Not BlackBerry, nor Apple iPhone, or Palm, or any Linux/BSD whatever.

And I don't use Opera, Safari, and all the wannabe pretenders... (oops, except under iPhone 3G)... And it sucks, way too slow!

Cheers!

PPS: remember my stated self-policy of only one reply? We all got better things to do... And all my quotes are not directed towards anyone specific, but in this case towards Apple.

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Those who can, do; Those who can't, b1t@# !

Hey dude, making fun of someone's superior knowledge, is a sign of insecurity.
~ Fear 2, the video game...

Bullying is simply posturing by someone taking out their feeling of inferiority on another they feel is weaker. Real strength is measured in the amount of tolerance you show to those weaker than you.
~ MaskedAvenger

[WinTard]

tc1953 said:

When I compare the cost of upgrading to Vista to buying a new Mac, it it is easy to see why this PCWorld subscriber since 1989 is letting his subscription lapse and subscribing to MacWorld.

?:| Sorry, I fail to see why?

Um, I hate to point out PCWorld and MacWorld are from the same publisher...

I hope you are not an iAMZ? In case you are not, then please consider the following with an open mind:

Did you know a Mac is a mere PC in disguise? One that has been 'modified' to become locked to Apple? That you are captive to one manufacturer?

Oh and please find me any Mac comparable to this:


Add a 25" 1080p HDTV LCD for $200, and a terabyte of SATA III HDD for $100...

And I fully expect Windows 7 x64 to be around the $200 mark for OEM products. Bonus, it is free at the moment, in beta.

PS: If you insist, you can also run Apple OS X on any PC. Please google: Results 1 - 10 of about 24,700,000 for run OS X on any pc. (0.40 seconds)

First hit being:

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OS X PROVEN hacked and running on an ordinary PC UPDATE 8-14: Howto: Build a Mac OS X x86 machine to run OS X natively. ... Simply dd the image in the same manner to any physical drive in your pc, ...
uneasysilence.com/os-x-proven-hacked-and-running-on-an-ordinary-pc/ - 46k - Cached - Similar pages

Other interesting ones:

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OSx86 Project | InsanelyMac A community of users running Mac OS X on x86 hardware.
[http://www.osx86project.org/] - 2k - Cached - Similar pages

>Hackint0sh.org - Home of the latest Apple hacks.The famous forum to hack everything apple. Home of the famous iPhone Dev Team, OSx86 and the OSx on AppleTV hack. If you are intrested in apple hacking, ...

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[http://www.hackint0sh.org/] - 25k - Cached - Similar pages

Welcome to the real world of open minded PC enthusiasts! You've finally arrived. Remember, a Mac is a mere PC in disguise... We also wish to extend our welcome to Apple and its cult followers. It's about time they joined reality. The more, the merrier! Now, who really is a monopoly? (Only to the faithful chosen ones...)

Reality or insanity? Style or substance? Perceptions are but mere illusions...

PS: MacWorld and PCWorld readers alike might also find this Wired Magazine blog enlightening: http://blog.wired.co...tofmac/2004/10/ and then proceed to http://cultofmac.com/ for more hilarious stuff!

Or why not simply google it just for fun? Results 1 - 10 of about 2,530,000 for cult of mac. (0.33 seconds)

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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
~ Warren Buffett

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
~ Warren Buffett

Who is Warren? ;)

Those who appreciate the funny Mac ads vs M$, surely will appreciate a little of their own medicine... All in fair-is-fair good humor! I agree they are both ridiculous. But one is an ad, the other a joke...



Okay it's 4:44, I better stop, apologies to all, I'm just having fun but always move onto something else at palindromic times... What do you expect from a WinTard?

[Evildave]

FACT: Micro$oft explicitly buggers their own file formats every version to MAKE SURE compatibility of other office software 'lags one step behind' compatibility with their own proprietary constantly mutating binary format. Could the Micro$obs make a consistent file format that DOES NOT change version to version? Of course! Anyone that is COMPETENT can make an extensible file format that supports new features while maintaining compatibility in both directions (i.e. older software opens your 'new' word processor document and does what it can with it). Micro$uck has consistently chosen over the years NEVER TO.
I'd rather look forward to the day that everyone ACTUALLY subscribes to the Open Document (ODF) standard, rather than pretend to do it while actively working to hijack and subvert it. Micro$uck attempting to make their own competing OpenDocument 'standard' and using their monopoly market position to make it stick, as they have a long history of doing with, well everything they could, is yet another thing that they're into ever more international hot water over.
So now Microsoft is doing the 'scrambling' to be 'compatible', because they stand to lose a LOT government customers worldwide without supporting ODF as a primary format. They've announced ODF 'compatibility' some time this year. We'll see if it's genuine, but I naturally have my doubts.

And they're still working away to subvert the ODF standards committee its self. After all, if they can twist the standard up into their own PATENTED Microsoft knots by stacking the committee with their loathesome, slimy shills, nobody will be able to adopt the 'standard' that emerges. After all, as I've already pointed out elsewhere, Microsoft hasn't been idle in the 21st century. They patented double-click (awarded in 2005) and page-up/page-down (awarded in 2008), after all! Just some of the MANY patents our clueless/retarded, but probably more corrupt patent office allowed through containing obvious 'prior art' that only a moron who'd never seen a computer before and didn't understand ANY computer technology would allow to stand. Instead, Microsoft gets 'bargaining chips'. PAY US (or REMOVE THAT FEATURE) or we (Micro$uck) will SUE YOU OUT OF BUSINESS. WE HAVE A BILLION DOLLARS TO SPEND ON IT, DO YOU?

You may as well claim Chevron was holding controlling Cobasys shares
(with battery patents to squat) for over a decade since they managed to subvert California's EV 'mandate' in order to encourage EV battery
production. (In fact, NOBODY could license any of those patents and they forced the manufacturers of the batteries that went into vehicles like the RAV4 EV to STOP PRODUCTION). It must be wonderful to have an infinite legal fund to make the laws say whatever you want them to. Micro$uck loves that model, too.

http://news.slashdot...8/10/04/2120206

http://www.infoworld.../06/04/03/7692914OPopenent1.html
Really, who would ever want to do business with such lying, sleazy, tainted, untrustworthy scum-suckers as people who Micro$uck pays? Or ever buy a gallon of Chevron gas again, for that matter?
When ODF is the de-facto standard, OFFICE will have nothing to offer. Just massive licensing expenses that no SANE business or government should tolerate. Of course, corrupted decision makers within businesses and governments paid off by Micro$uck to make large purchases are another matter. At least it will become obvious who the corrupt ones are. The ones who spurn the free standard and SPEND stockholder/taxpayer money on Micro$uck licenses when there is excellent FREE software that not only the state can use, but can publish in an open format that every taxpayer can open with FREE software.

Microsuck has standard procedures in place to undermine people who publicly decide 'against' making Microsoft purchases.

Internally leaked, authentic Micro$uck document about forming 'strike teams' to take down MicroSuck adversaries.

http://www.catb.org/...halloween8.html

Standard M$ procedure in practice: Get the guy fired, undermine his authority, whatever it takes. A very good article explaining how the Massachusetts ODF thing played out.

http://www.computerw...&intsrc=articlemoreside

They even resort to astro-turfing (FAKE 'grass-root' support - paying shills to write letters supporting Micro$uck or even just printing up masses of letters in random people's names, reviewing Micro$uck positively in online reviews, etc.)

http://www.newsfacto...ry%2F13046.html

http://www.internetn...icle.php/871631

http://www.google.co...rch?q=Microsoftpaidshill

So really, the only thing being a Microsoft customer supports with your hard earned money is lying. Competent, soft-spoken deception, perjury and treachery tested before focus groups and broadcast wherever it can be seen and heard by the more credulous masses.

[Evildave]

REAL Top 3 positive things about OpenOffice.org:

1. It's not Micro$oft

2. It's not Micro$oft

3. It's not Micro$oft



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