Microsoft releases MSN for Mac OS X

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Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit on Thursday will release MSN for Mac OS X.

“MSN for Mac

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  4. Hey Alan – it clearly says “MacDailyNews Take” and is not part of the article – it is commentary – and that’s why I LOVE THIS SITE. No credibility issue at all. You use MSN on your Mac, huh?

    About MDN not giving the link to MSN for Mac OS X – I think it’s funny and anyone who really cares can go find it themselves.

    B R A V O, MacDailyNews, B R A V O ! ! !

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  7. Microsoft: “an ethically-challenged company bent on copying Apple’s innovations while illegally leveraging their monopoly to erect artificial proprietary roadblocks designed to keep Macintosh market share in single digits.”

    Has a truer staement ever been written?

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  8. All of this “you must embrace Microsoft” crap from Apple, Jobs, and the majority of the Mac press (not here) is getting tired. Screw Microsoft. The day I sign up for MSN on my PowerBook is the day you pry my one-button mouse out of my cold, dead hand.

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  9. I like MSN for Mac OS X. Flame me if you must (OK, I left out my email) but I like this very much.

    It’s the coolest thing since I had all my gold jewelry tin-plated!

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  10. Back in the dark ages (1996-98)when I did Win95 support for Keane, we had to also support the new MSN. The cdroms were carpet bombed out aol-style to unsuspecting users. They were black. They became known to us as the Black Death cdroms, because we got swamped with calls from irate users who had had their feeble Win95 systems utterly hosed by the execrable MSN installer software. Just wanted to share that. Ever since that hellish job, I’ve been a devoted Mac user.

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  12. Take the thousands of research hours we’ve put into MSN 8, add the MacBU’s own research and expertise in developing cutting-edge online products and software for Mac OS X, layer that on top of powerful OS X technologies, and you’ll find MSN for Mac OS X makes the Web more useful.”

    If MS was to put this on National TV I would buy into the bullshit.

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  14. Seeing this article made me smile.

    I wholeheartedly agree with your take on Microsoft’s “Mac Business Unit”.
    Microshaft doesn’t give Macintosh users good software because it’s not in their best interest. Apple’s Safari is laughably fast compared to Internet Explorer. When Apple someday decides to make their own superior Office alternative, I don’t think it will prove too difficult. (They have much of it in place already with their existing apps such as AppleWorks and Keynote. Who knows what’s in Apple’s sleeve? ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />

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  16. Well, Dave wrote:
    “Personally, I think more software choices on the Mac platform is better than fewer, regardless of who releases them.”

    I’m surprised Dave doesn’t use Windows, you can get “more” of everything they say on good old Windows, and don’t care who releases them, yep, sounds like a Windows user to me.

    Well personally, I do care who releases the software I use, and I certainly choose to avoid software from MS, they are only in business to generate more power and wealth for themselves. They leverage everything, for example, you guys know about Halo? Built by Bungie and nearly ready for the Mac until they ran into budgetary problems, MS bought out the company and used Halo to promote their X-Box, didn’t even give it to the PC user. Then there’s Dungeon Siege, talk about “siege”, Microsoft “bought” Gas Powered Games” and then kept Mac users waiting a year only to find that Microsoft versions of the game use “DirectPlay” or some similarly named proprietory Microsoft bullshit that makes it impossible for Mac users to join the community of Windows players.

    Currently their trying to “kill” Sun and Java with their “cloneware” (.NET and C#) and would like to have control of just about everything computer related.

    YES I CARE WHO MAKES THE SOFTWARE I USE !!!

    What hits the news about Microsoft is just the tip of the iceberg, despite their name they are neither small nor soft, they are BIG and HARD and very similar to the Mafia.

    Anyone else out there care?

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  18. “all wrapped in a familiar Mac look and feel.”

    huh? did anyone look at those screenshots?

    It looks like another MS interpretation of what the “mac look and feel” is… and much like IE, I’m certain this will suck. I’ll stick to my broadband RoadRunner ISP.

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