“U.S. stock-index futures declined after Microsoft Corp. said the next version of its Windows software program will be delayed. Companies whose products use Windows slumped on concern a January release will wipe out demand during the holiday shopping season. Intel Corp., the world’s biggest semiconductor maker, and Dell Inc., the largest personal-computer maker, declined,” Nick Baker reports for Bloomberg. “‘It’s clearly negative for Microsoft and the PC market as a whole,’ said Douglas Wright, who helps manage $1 billion in U.S. stocks at Britannic Asset Management in Glasgow, Scotland. ‘It will hurt sales and adds uncertainty to the market.'”
Baker reports, “Microsoft fell 69 cents to $27.05 [in pre-market trading]. Intel fell 17 cents to $19.61. Dell slipped 41 cents to $29.86. Prudential Equity Group cut its rating on personal- computer makers to ‘neutral’ from ‘favorable.’ Apple Computer Inc., which makes computers that run on a different operating system, rallied $1.19 to $63.”
Full article here.
Abby Deveney reports for MarketWatch, “Shares of Apple Computer got a pre-open lift. It’s expected to benefit from Microsoft’s delayed release of its new Vista operating system. Merrill Lynch analyst Richard Farmer believes Apple will benefit from ‘a less competitive market for another holiday season against an aging Windows offering.'”
Full article here.
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“Through the cozy window you can see a fire buring in the distance. Looking closer at the fire you see the Windows logo in flames and crumling down.”
The XBox360 should be used as the fire starter! ;D
Ampar “Sweet! I’ll meet you in Redmond. I’ll bring the pig’s blood if you bring the torches.”
Chicken blood. We don’t want to exclude anyone on religious grounds
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do not hijack my name you silly troll I spit at you. The only post that I made was my first one, hanger57 nice catch of my spelling error.
winblows sucks, all there is to it, so if any of you Micro$uck fanboys want to play, do so in the kiddie pool where you belong.
Ampar & Edgeley Exile 43:
So, will there be virgins for sacrifice?
well now that I have vented emotionally to the person who hijacked my name in a feeble attempt to blemish my tag,
I am grateful for these people, not only does it prove that winblows people must resort to pissing in the mac garden without any intelligent arguement as to why they must hold onto a clearly INFERIOR OS, but also to make themselves feel better somehow that they have insulted someone who does not suffer the same OS affliction WITHOUT the courage to use their own tag.
Guess that just like the OS, winblows fanboys must also steal anything that is apple centric……
Seems rather pathelogical actually, hmmm I feel a theory brewing… anyway keep using your prcious winblows, hope you have fun with BIOS! Maybe someday you too can have EFI, but I knda doubt it.
joewannamac “So, will there be virgins for sacrifice?”
Yep, but we’ll have to ship them in from Canada, for obvious reasons.
If they say Jan 07 now…. it means July 07…. earliest!
Bwahhahhhahhahahahahahahhhah aahh aahhhha!
I fart alot.
Richard Branson has agreed to provide the virgins. I’m o.k. with chicken blood. We should bring crying towels for the rats fleeing the Redmond ship since towels were taken away. And directions to the nearest Apple Store although I’m sure many of them are already closet Mac users. We’ll also need one hundred feet of rope, one thousand toothpicks, forty-eight gallons of Vaseline, two hundred pairs of Spiderman Underoos, sixty-seven cans of shaving cream, four thousand marbles, all red, miscellaneous clock parts, and a Halloween mask of the Hulk (Lou Ferrigno version). You’ll know why when we get there.
Glad to see those “advances” in Apple stock take hold.
Oh wait, never mind…
Ampar
OMG, you’re wanting to seduce Steve Ballmer. He’s into all that you know. I’ve seen his website.
http://www.steveballmerlovesropetoothpicksspidermanunderoosandshavingcream.de/redmarbles/clockparts/hulk.html
Funnily enough, according to NetCraft, it run’s on Darwin. How strange…..