Apple has apparently surprised CNET’s Joris Evers by attending Microsoft’s WinHEC hardware engineering conference.
Evers reports that four Apple employees are attending the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Seattle this week to see what Microsoft is doing, “‘I am attending WinHEC to keep tabs on what is happening in the industry and what Microsoft is looking to do over the next year,’ said David Harrington, manager of the hardware technology group in Apple’s worldwide developer relations department. He declined to make any further comment, citing Apple’s public relations policy.”
Evers reports, “WinHEC is meant for companies that develop hardware to work with or run Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Apple is flirting with that with its trial release in April of Boot Camp, which is software that enables Windows XP to run on Intel-based Macs. However, an Apple representative last week reiterated to CNET News.com that the company has no plans to ship Windows on any of its systems.”
Full article here.
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“I’d be scrolling through 6.7 miles of spit-flying diatribe.”
Wow, you really do have nothing else to do. The lovefest over at MicrosoftDailyNews.com must have rejected you?
I lost a post somewhere, caches cleared.
Must have been deleted, funny it was further clarifiying my first post in this thread. hmmm
I hate losing cache. That’s why I use debit card.
Maybe Apple’s lawyers sent them to see exactly what Microsucks is copying in Vista.
Exactly!
Mac OS X is a totally brand new OS and the deals/lawsuits struck over Mac OS Classic don’t apply.
Apple doesn’t need Virtual PC, it could use OfficeMac, but I’m sure something “better” is in the basement at Cupertino that could run well on both platforms.
Anyone remember the copyright on iCalc?
It would castrate M$ if Apple put out a competing iOffice package for Windows and Mac OS X.
“I hate losing cache. That’s why I use debit card.”
That’s just stupid, quit while you’re ahead.
Hey check this out, DashCode from Apple accidently released.
http://digg.com/apple/Apple_accidently_releases_Dashcode_
Just to warn you. “Dashcode Client” will contact Apple at http://www.apple.com on TCP port 80.
I love Little Snitch, make sure you delete all the default rules and carefully allow what you want to contact the internet. You’ll find a lot more stuff going on that way.
I was ahead? WOW! COOL! What the HEC? (keeping it on topic)
If there aren’t alternate universes, wouldn’t you start to feel just a bit claustrophobic?
P.S. Clay, I just loved your version of Elton John’s “Don’t Let Your Sons Go Down On Me.” Inspiring!
Why thank you, not my best effort but I had just shagged Seacreast in the dressing room.
BTW, Vista Rocks.
Those of you in the US with cable, check out the History Channel right now.
Re: Vista rocks.
Started out as metamorphic. Vista is probably igneous now.
Way OT but I was at Lowe’s Motor Speedway today to get info on friday night’s world premier of Cars™. I only had my phone camera, but I was able to get some cool pics of full size versions of a few characters from the movie. Paul Newman with his Hudson and Richard Petty with his racecar were inside doing promo shots.
I’m not a NASCAR fan, but I’m as thrilled to see Cars™ at the track as my four-year-old son. Anybody else in Charlotte gonna see it?
Link? Doh!
http://homepage.mac.com/ustamp/PhotoAlbum13.html
Cool I was like the first person to see those pictures. (#2, with the site owner being #1 viewer)
By the way, my nick is the new name of the PowerMacTels coming, and they will all be Quads.
StaticMesh, hello, idiot!
If some retailers sell a Mac with Windows pre-installed, that is not the same thing as supporting Windows. (Uhm, and BootCamp is still Beta, right? Right!)
The iWork suite is not competing with M$ Office, because it doesn’t do even most of the things that Office does. It’s a replacement for Appleworks, not Office.
Jobs is no fool. You act as though he has no-one trained to take his place, and no legions willing to march for his cause.
How many sales of Vista do you think will be bought by corporations, who then force it on their employees? Hmm, many. Do forced purchases count as actual purchases by people who want the product? Hmm, no.
I tell you, the Windows fanboiz are getting dumber every day.
“Apple sends reps to WinHEC to keep tabs on Microsoft”
And this is what the Apple reps will hear:
“Blah, blah, blah, blah, Microsoft, blah, blah, sucky, suck, suck, blah, blah, blah, sucky, blah, Vista, blah, blah, blah, Apple sucks, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.”