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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People have the choice to use Windows on a Mac. Don’t want it, don’t use it. What’s the big deal and why are people making it a big deal. If you don’t want Windows, just buy a Mac and use MacOSX. This only benefits Apple and Microsoft. The end user has a choice.
Microsoft is a Software company that makes Windows. They don’t give a f*ck on what computer it’s running on. Mac, DELL, palm or Mattel. As long as it runs and people buy it. As for Apple, they sell more Mac.
Give it a break
I work at a school district which was overwhelmingly Mac when I started several years ago. To my utter shock and dismay, there is a contingent that actually prefers PC’s, mainly because their spouses insisted upon one at home. Despite all the viruses and spyware, and the apparent (to me, anyway) superiority of Mac OS X, these people have pushed and continue to push replacing Macs with PC’s- for them, it’s familiarity, plus they see it as “consistency.”
There is still a large Mac presence, though not as predominant as in the past- though lately, I see signs the tide might be turning once again, thankfully.
The point is, though, that people who’ve tried both Macs and PC’s don’t necessarily “overwhelmingly choose the Mac.”
They’re not necessarily that bright.
“The point is, though, that people who’ve tried both Macs and PC’s don’t necessarily “overwhelmingly choose the Mac.”
They’re not necessarily that bright.”
The point is not everybody can buy a Mac. It depends on the budget, it depends most of the times on what u need.
– U’r a videogamer? Ok than u can’t choose a Mac (and please don’t mention the games on this platform. Compared on the Win stuff there’s no challenge).
– U’r a developer? Well, none of Borland or Visual Studio IDE r on Mac platform, and even if u try to count all of them u’ll c there’s so much variety in Win environment that u can’t stand the challenge.
There r still some fields where a Mac is more suitable but overall the number of application is huge (OSS, closed ecc.) and speaks for Win.
That’s not a question of intelligence, but of needings.
Maybe with the X86 architecture this trend is gonna change ( I hope so, cause I personally find Macs more attractive), but it will take yrs and yrs.
So plz MacdailyNews try to be not like Bush press and be realist:
” Is Microsoft trying to help Apple first embrace and then extinguish Windows or is this just another sign that Microsoft has lost it?”
Extinguish a company that leads 90+% presence on Home Computing, compared to 3-4 of Mac 5 of Linux?
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C’mon guys, be serious
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