“Could Microsoft be the next IBM? Back in November, I wrote about how disappointed I was with both Internet Explorer 7 and Office 2007. I wondered if Microsoft was coming to the end of its reign as the 800-pound gorilla of the computing world,” Andrew Kantor writes for USA Today.
Kantor writes, “Since then, I’ve had a chance to put Windows Vista through its paces. If anything would help the kids in Redmond stay on top, it was this.”
“And I can say confidently that it’s not yet ready for primetime,” Kantor reports.
Kantor then covers a bunch of Vista problems (we’ve seen similar in every review not paid for by Microsoft).
Kantor writes, “If someone out there feels like spotting me the cash for a 20-inch, 2.33-GHz iMac and Photoshop, I’d be grateful.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: A true “Wow!” Kantor is among the very last we’d ever peg to even consider the Mac. We find it very hard to believe that he’d ever – using his words – “drink the Kool-Aid and join the cult of blind little Mac fanatic lemmings.” Prove us wrong, Andy. We’d love to have one less idiot’s bad prose through which to constantly wade.
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Kantor: ‘Mac fans are nothing if not predictable’ – January 12, 2007
USA Today writer: Apple iPhone is an ‘ordinary, average product’ at heart – January 12, 2007
USA Today tech writer: Apple’s Boot Camp will get Mac users to switch to Windows – April 14, 2006
USA Today columnist calls Mac users and Apple fans a ‘cult of blind little lemmings’ – September 16, 2005
USA Today: Apple’s iPod nano ‘a beautiful piece of hardware’ – but ‘the competition has caught up’ – September 16, 2005
USA Today writer: Apple’s iTunes Music Store’s ‘restrictive license’ fosters rampant piracy – March 25, 2005
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Too bad I don’t even have the cash right now for a new Mac. Maybe we should pass around the collection plate to buy him one.
I got $2, cash money, for the cause. And a bottlecap.
Ok, I’m outta the loop. Someone please explain the Kool-Aid/Mac references, please. You can flame me if you feel the need.
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Chump change. I probably have more than enough to cover that down the back of my sofa.
He’s just looking for an excuse not to jump and admit he’s been wrong all of these years.
Come on Apple, send him a loaner. After a couple of months he’ll be hooked and send you a cheque.
Ash: 2 words Jim Jones, and Jonestown
ok more than two. Google is your friend on this. Aslo Wikipedia i suspect
You will be assimilated into the Mac collective.
Let your wireless network speak the language of Apple.
Let your packets flow through the veins of Steve Jobs and return to you with whimsical powers.
Let the Steve Jobs distortion field envelope your body and soul.
Yeah sayeth Lord Steve Jobs.
Make it so Number One.
AshNazg:
Click that first referenced link (Kantor: ‘Mac fans are nothing if not predictable’) to see what it means in relation to Macs. IE, Mac users are fanatics that are blind slaves to the Cult of Apple and His Steveness.
The “koolaid” reference goes back to the Jonestown Massacre and the People’s Temple in 1978. The followers, fearing Government retaliation for the murder of a US Congressman and his party committed mass suicide by drinking poisoned Koolaid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
Since then its been a short-hand reference (“drinking the koolaid”) to people who blindly follow a particular belief.
AshNazg:
Read the wikipedia article on Jonestown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
Long story short, it was a cult commune which ended when its members followed their leader in drinking poisoned Kool Aid (Flavor Aid, actually). It’s a popcultural reference for cultish behavior and following without thinking. It’s used with Mac owners since they’re “cultish”, at least in the collective caricature.
I just won the $3.7 million Lotto
Macs for everyone!!!
I could throw in a Zune but I’m afraid that I’d have to pay an extra “Waste disposal fee” to get rid of it.
I’m enjoying every bit of Vista-related stories. Keep’em coming MDN.
@AshNazg
Google is your friend:
Jim Jones, cult leader, killed all his followers in Jonestown, Guyana with poisoned Kool-Aid, and then shot himself in a suicide pact.
He was a charismatic leader, but destructive to his flock.
He is still a moron, though.
The Kool-Aid comment is in reference to Jim Jones and the “Jonestown” massacre of the late 70s in Guiana (sp.?). Jone’s followers (all) committed mass suicide by drinking poison laced punch (thought to be kool-aid). Apparently they knew what was in the punch and drank it anyway at the insistence of Jones. Do a search and you will turn up tons of stuff about this event.
The phrase: “drinking the Kool-aid” thus became synonymous with blindly following a leader regardless of how absurd the position/direction. It is often used by M$ shills to demean Apple/Mac users in reference to believing that whatever Steve Jobs or Apple does is the best. (See also “RDF” in reference to Steve Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field.)
MDN’s particular reference is a quote from a particular vitriol of Kantor’s some months back. Ah the irony!
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Ahh, thanks Neven.
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Maybe we can arrange an aluminum can drive to raise funds for his new Mac? Somebody could scour the Redmond recycle bins for old Squirt soda cans.
(Sorry)
For all the crap he’s written over the years he deserves to buy his own Mac as penance for his sins.
HEY, could ONE MORE person go ahead and explain the kool-aid reference for ua all? Huh? Please?
Maybe we can go for the record.
“For all the crap he’s written over the years he deserves to buy his own Mac as penance for his sins.” He deserves to buy one at FULL PRICE. No discounts. Ever. He has MANY sins he needs to repent for.
@Shut the F-CK up
Yeah let’s, just to piss you off.
Wonderful news, Jon1 – where do we go to pick ’em up?
Thank Neven, for leetle girls, for leetle girls get beeger every day.
I take the opposite view.
Far from being given a Mac, he should be refused a Mac even if his pays for it out of his own funds. He’s done all he can to dissuade others from using Macs and he should be kept in the land of PCs until the last person who followed his advice has switched to Mac.
Once that is done, his penance is complete and he would be welcomed.
Why should he be given a free Mac to escape the fate that he has imposed on others ? Who will be giving free Macs to those who were influenced by Kantors misguided ravings ?
kool-aid reference refers to when Steve (The Kool-Aid Man) Ballmer crahses through the partition at the MS dev con keynote and yells, “OH, YEAH, developers, deveopers, OH YEAH”
then throws chair…
What flavor kool-aid is ballmer, you ask?…. why monkey mango of course.
I refuse to drink the explaining-the-koolaid koolaid.