At a presentation of the oft-delayed Windows Vista and Office 2007 for a group of bloggers at Microsoft HQ in Diegem, Belgium, Microsoft “actully loaded Windows Vista on a piece of Mac hardware and presented with it,” according to a brief report from UNEASYsilence.
More photos can be found on Flickr here.
MacDailyNews Take: Not a smart move by Microsoft. This story will help Joe Average see that his next computer should be a “Twofer” Apple Mac that can run Mac OS X and Windows Vista.
Now, Windows Vista can’t hold a candle to Mac OS X Tiger (or Jaguar, for that matter) and Mac OS X Leopard is on the way, no less. We all know what happens when someone actually tries a Mac and can compare it to Windows: they overwhelmingly choose the Mac. Is Microsoft trying to help Apple first embrace and then extinguish Windows or is this just another sign that Microsoft has lost it?
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Chairs are being readied to be thrown at people. I expect these two to get fired.
Pretty cool. Could also be to pressure PC makers to get their computers up to snuff?
Naah, this just shows that PC geeks really do want a Mac. Was probably one of their personal Laptops and they just tried it on their own and then decieded to use it for the presentation.
Yes, this could be a bad move for MS. At least in the PR world.
(did better than the Dell laptop from last week)
Later
Nahh, it is that even Microsucks knows that the best computers out there are the new Macs. They know it, they show it and they do not care: it still bring money to them.
People to be scared are all PC manufacturers out there: they sell inferior products.
Microshaft is simply making it more clear for its customers: BUY a MAC.
BTW, MacBooks are the ones that score best on the “Vista ready” tool released by Microshit. Why running Windows on inferior products?
MDN “trouble” as appropriate as ever. This spells trouble for PC makers.
Is Microsoft trying to help Apple first embrace and then extinguish Windows or is this just another sign that Microsoft has lost it?
You gotta have it before you can lose it.
That guy needs to get into a weight room – fast!
I believe that M$ wanted to make their presentation on a computer that was Vista ready (and of course, reliable)…
I think this is more of a blow to Dell, Gateway, etc., etc….
Dell, HP Compaq, Gateway, Acer, Sony, Toshiba, et al should be very pleased with this. They have been the engine for Microsoft’s dominance by bundling the MS tax with their computers and this is how MS repays them – demos the first major upgrade to their OS in 5 years on competition’s hardware!
Still, MS makes more money if people by a Mac and a full retail version of Vista than if they get Vista at the “bundle” price with their Dell.
That guy needs to get into a weight room – fast!
Listen to me now as I tell you tomorrow about what you needed to hear yesterday….We’re gonna pump….you UP!
My guess is that MS wins–at least in the short term–by promoting Apple computers that run Windows.
The Macs that are sold to people who want to run Windows on it, the better for Micrsoft. Any Apple owner who wants to run Windows has to buy Windows separately–that gives Micrsoft a bigger per-unit profit than a pre-installed Windows computer.
This really is a win-win situation for Microsoft and Apple.
Of course, we all expect and hope that in the long term people are convinced to move to the better OS–OS X.
“The Macs that are sold to people who want to run Windows on it, the better for Micrsoft. Any Apple owner who wants to run Windows has to buy Windows separately–that gives Micrsoft a bigger per-unit profit than a pre-installed Windows computer.
This really is a win-win situation for Microsoft and Apple.”
Exactly, Windows will be sold at full-retail to run on Macs. And then Office etc.
Further, it helps Microsoft jump on the “Apple is hip” bandwagon. Brilliant move buy Microsoft.
How is it that “Windows Vista. Windows Vista can’t hold a candle to Mac OS X Tiger”? Have you used Vista Beta?
My vote is “lost it”.
Oddly enough, my MW is “freedom”.
Cool!
Yeah, we all know what happens when people actually use Macs and compare it to Windows but let’s be real folks… how many average joes are going to see these pictures? This is just for us Mac nerds to enjoy. Now, if we could get someone at a major media outlet then mayber it’ll mean something more. Either way, I’m sure Uncle Fester is spitting a vile e-mail to the guys in Belgium for this mistake.
Perhaps Macbook Pro with Core Duo provided the fastest and most stable hardware available for running Vista.
Perhaps some renegade Microsoft employees were flexing their iconoclastic muscle.
Perhaps Microsoft quietly and tacitly acknowledged that differences between OSs cannot be explained by differences in hardware.
Perhaps Microsoft imagines that Vista, devoid of so many promised features and significant attributes, is equivalent to OS X 10.4 in elegance, function, stability, and security.
Um, guys, what you see in the photo above is a properly proportioned human being. Apparently, America has become so obese that a normal person appears too thin by comparison.
MDN – you don´t get it. Microsoft loves Windows on Apple. It:
Exposes more Mac people to Windows.
It sells more copies of Windows.
It shows that Windows runs anywhere!
Plus people buy more Windows software to run on their WindowsMacs.
Windows people are not going to buy a Mac to run Windows – they already have a Windows computer!
Hah.
Microsoft KNOWS quality, they’re simply incapable of creating any on their own.
Oddly, I was at the Columbus Circle CompUSA yesterday and in the Mac section was greeted by a CoreDuo iMac running Windows…. there’s something WRONG about that! It’s just a damn CREEPY feeling…
(…and so far to the right that neutrality appears to be leftist)
Twofer? I vote a Onefer! This shows that there is NOTHING better than Mac OS X, and that Microsoft practically admits it, by loading their rip of OS X onto a Mac! Morons.
Microsoft see’s what we all fear.
That for the time being Mac OS X may be the better eye candy/secure OS, but it won’t maintain that for long.
Because quite frankly there isn’t much innovation left in computer operating systems, Apple has choked Mac OS x with more features than most everyone will ever use.
So as Windows catches up, like it always has, it will have a major foothold on the Mac hardware.
Over time as less and less developers code natively for Mac OS X and Mac users get more familiar with Windows, the training wheels will come off and Apple will be just another PC vendor.
Apple will survive, Mac OS X will be dead. The cult will live on and we will get used to Windows much like we got used to running inferior Intel processors.
Embrace and extinguish is the Microsoft way and Apple allowed them to do it.
Of course I hope this is not the case. Please god NO!!!
Before you flame me
I’m only playing devils advocate.
Of course I’m wondering why “Boot Camp” is called “Boot Camp”
Ever look up the definition?
MDN Word is “feed” Like don’t feed the trolls, they just grow bigger.
. . . or maybe the employees of a company worth $250 billion just can’t conceive of a little 4% of market share company like Apple creating a product that is just that much better than their product, which controls over 90% of the same market.
It just isn’t in their DNA to think in these relative terms, “of course our product is better, EVERYONE uses it!”
JoeL
Unforthunately, the “masses” will never see this picture of a Mac being used to demonstrate Windows. Yes, some will buy the Mac hardware just to run WIndows (one of my good friends has already done this). He loves his 15″ MBP but is only using OS X for videochatting, etc. He uses Windows via Boot Camp to run his work and other home applications.
Oh my
#1 MP3 player in Asia is not a iPod
yikes.