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Do Mac and Windows Users Read Blogs Differently?

windows user's are used to 4 or 5 weeks on the phone with tech support every time they try something new or even if they haven't done it in a while and windows disabled it "for their own good" I did notice all my windows using friends stand up at attention when they heard of any other OS than windows that they might use only to sit down again with a look of long suffering resignation when i explained centralized Applications to them.

Microsoft: Still Master of the Operating System Domain

to call microsoft an industry leader is an oxymoron. the main reason the OS was so crappy from the beginning was it was a copy of the mac os duct taped to dos. in being everything to everybody it ended up being nothing at all. Steve Balmer at the helm will make the company sweaty,hoarse and even more clueless. counting every beige box that comes with a disk a "sale" is really ludicrous and in a masterful public relations move cutting off the sale of XP ( extra problems) removes the consumer choice to pay extra at the store for a UPdowngrade to xp that many were doing .at his next testosterone fest Balmer will tout the increased adoption of vista as a triumph of its superiority over xp one more example of how out of touch a company can be o no i just got a virus update from mcaffe . . .wheres my credit card . . . my protection is expired what the heck is half ware anyway . . . I'm getting a mac dude!

Windows Collapsing Under Its Own Weight - Gartner

windows is and always will be a 16 bit extension on an 8 bit patch on top of a 4 bit operating system from a 2 bit company that can't take 1 bit of competition

the hooks and holes left in it over twenty years so everything will run on it is why its so easy to hack. they have to accommodate good and bad code from manufacturers.


its time to get a mac folks ! why wait foe windoze 7 when OSX is her today Microsoft will never get it right.

Apple, Microsoft Run for the Clouds in the New Client Software War

Apple has always been a software company that happens to make great hardware to run it on at one point they will realize this and allow the mac os to run on any hardware then the great GUI ( graphic user interface) will spread like wildfire the thing Redmond never gets is that instead of making us set things up for what we want to do from scratch they should have the os set to do what we most likely want to do and allow it to be changed from there. apple anticipates our needs so well and understands that there should be many paths to what you want to do with your machine that it will surely be the winner in the clouds or on the desktop someday soon. the corporate world is just starting to see that it is better to have someone creating a document than calling for the it department to figure out how to open one. productivity will eventually give apple the edge.

What's Yahoo's Next Move?

this is not apples thing… yahoo would not fit in the apple pantheon. this whole bother you to death with adverts with a minimal amount of usefulness to make money is a windows approach, my mac has a google search window in its browser it works fine we don't need a headache on the mac. let Blamer have this one

Defending Apple's MacBook Air

"Though I bought 3 Dell notebooks, I am not bound to Dell or even Microsoft."

some folks just never learn… my 6400 from 1995 still runs

Defending Apple's MacBook Air

jeez i did not say it was a ferrari i said if there were two cars traveling down the information highway the factors controlling the speed is the speed limit and the traffic jobs rightly balanced the power vs the milage for everyday tasks to come up with not the fastest laptop in the traffic jam but the one that fills the real needs of MOST laptop users most of us are not Herb Hancock mixing 90 audio tracks on the plane to his next gig we are trying to type a report you don't need a ferrari to do that but you don't want to run out of (now pay attention here… get this its a metaphor…) "gas".

Defending Apple's MacBook Air

the fact is as a graphics artist i do all my heavy lifting on my desktop. i want the biggest screen i can get and no restrictions on where my keyboard or mouse is i need my wacom pen. my laptop has always been for working on copy or surfing the web. if a processor cant keep up with my typing speed i have a problem. i however have never been able to type faster than any computer i have ever had. The internet is another story but the speed a computer goes on the internet has nothing to do with its processor its the data pipe that determines the speed (the old analogy is a Ferrari and a Volkswagen on the long island expressway are both doing about 25 miles per hour) whats important about this product is that id does not need to be hauled around in its own backpack its going to tuck in to your briefcase and not make a lump or weigh 200 pounds it WILL run a spreadsheet faster than you can add 2 and 2 and it will let you get to notes and work on documents wherever you are with out causing a major scene taking it out of your backpack or those goofy padded carrying cases. for people who want to be mobile its a slam dunk . the clunky cheap plastic cases on a dell look like one of my old kids toys and i am certain the slightest mishap would smash them to pieces as fast as my old transistor radio did when it took a tumble in my car. this is a product any one who likes to be sharp and practical will want to have apple will sell lots of them and the little superdrive for 99 bucks is cool too i had one i bought from apple years ago and it has been very handy but if i don't need it leaving it home would be fine. by the way my new os is connecting to our windows network at work perfectly and with no input from me , one day i noticed every computer in our network (that was shared) just sitting there waiting for my click. if i can use the cd drive in them from the air laptop it would be a miracle of engineering as i can barely get them to work in the wintel boxes that house them. the sales of these laptops will be way better than the naysayers predict (think students carrying less weight from class to class)