“At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has taken a rather large shot at Microsoft’s Longhorn, the next major release of Windows. In its boldest move to date, Apple is displaying several banners for Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” at the Moscone Center in San Francisco that make it quite clear the company’s feelings toward Microsoft and the software giant’s upcoming operating system,” MacMinute reports.
Full article and photos of the banners which display the Tiger logo and include phrases such as, “Introducing Longhorn,” “Redmond, start your photocopiers,” “This should keep Redmond busy,” and “Redmond, we have a problem,” here.
MacDailyNews Take: Moo.
This Is just to funny. I wish Apple did this more often!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love it!!
All right the gloves are off!
Maybe they (Apple) might finally reckon it’s time to get stuck into M$. A native version of Open Office might do the trick.
I’m sure the developers of Konfabulator and Watson can appreciate the humor!
Oh how funny!! Perhaps Apple feels a little independent because they might actually have a great update of Appleworks? Hhhmmmm…GOODBYE OFFICE!
I find it hard to believe — is that an open declaration of war on M$?
Microsoft is vulnerable because Windows is currently unusable — antivirus utilities can’t keep up: business are finding their HPs acting up (if they can get them to act at all); schools running Dells can’t allow internet access… and Mac users are completely unaffected.
Office is somewhat vulnerable with various open source alternatives. Consider the web-based SimDesk office suite and its 5-million deal with the City of Houston and upcoming deals with Indiana and various schools (at $1 a head!). Even HP is thinking of providing hardware for these programs.
By late 2005, as many as 400,000 Chicago public school students will have access. And on June 24, the state of Indiana was to announce it would make SimDesk available to its 6 million residents. “Anyone who has Internet access now also has free access to a full suite of office software,” says Indiana Lieutenant Governor Kathy Davis. “I think this is the real deal. It’s one of the things Microsoft is going to have to watch.”
Apple could easily do this through .Mac. Is this the start of …
If the BusinessWeek link takes you to the front page the article is titled “A Sweet Deal In Suite Software”
I guess this means there will not be a Microsoft rep telling the crowd how committed Microsoft is to the Apple platform, blah blah blah… It would be too ackward. Anyway, it is not like they do not deserve it, having stolen every Apple innovation and repackaged it in their Windows operating system. Now Microsoft is making noise about it’s supposed iPod-killer. Hogwash! People don’t need portable video; they just need more iPods.
>MacDailyNews Take: Moo.
More like: Ey … toro! Toro! [a bulfighter’s taunt].
Give the world an alternative to MS Office.
Really funny and very provocative!
But… can someone help me out on the “Redmond, we have a problem”?
I can see an Apollo/Houston reference, but surely it then sounds like Apple is the stricken Apollo craft and Microsoft is Mission Control!.
I am Dutch, so I might be missing something. Thanks
@ stringbean:
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change the perspective:
the one who says that is some MS representative / developer seeing all the goodies on display at wwdc and calling headquarters in Redmond. – makes much more sense, right?
regards from hamburg / germany
These banners have emotionally scarred me.
Yeah, that’s a bit lame… should have been: “Redmond: It’s back to the drawing board” but that’s too long. Or “Redmond: ‘We have a problem.'” On the other hand, expecting better punctuation from the US than the Dutch is optimistic. How many languages you speak, stringbean?
thanks for that, matt — that perspective must be right.
“The real IT world” is laughing thier asses off at you moronic mac users and your psychobabble.
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EXCELLENT!
All we need is Apple to launch it’s ‘office’ killer app that inter-connects with the ilife suite and I can finally get rid of the only virus on my Mas – MICROSOFT OFFICE!
Keep it up Apple! – Even Windows Users hate Microsoft!
Matt, yes I think you are right… very subtle. I think Apple are raising the stakes if they are attacking Microsoft so directly!
Thanks for the insight
Perhaps this is the release of a MacOS X for Intel?
I should sue Fox News’ “Less is ‘Moore’” and the New York Post’s “Less is Moore” for abusing my nickname but I’m sure it’s not deliberate — unlike Apple’s taunts.
Gotta go kill a steer for dinner now.
of course jobs and gates never talk, only we consumers understand how they interact
You just know the PCheads just won’t have a sense of humour over this don’t you. can’t wait for all the angst.
in a way, this signifies the mind-set of many mac users and steve jobs alike: bold. we decide to make our own choices and at some point the microscheisse biased media and pc users by the dozen will eventually become targets of our aggression. i myself take pop-shots at microscheiss’ all the time, but it does seem a little odd for a corporation like apple take this approach. i happen to like it. perhapes it has preaching to it’s base crowd, but we all know that apple’s advertising strategy (not the company, mind you) has been a little flaccide, leaving apple’s imagine like, as robin williams once put it, ‘midget in a diving suit.’ for once they’ve been aggressive in promoting the operating system, which has always been the ‘real’ basis of our macintosh experience – not the pretty boxes they come in (which seems to be so glorified by the apple ads).
immature adolescent nonsense
This is great and fun…can’t wait for the punch line if these are the teasers.