“The tech company that really seems to be enjoying Microsoft’s new operating system is Apple,” Justin Lahart reports for The Wall Street Journal.
Lahart reports, “The Cupertino, Calif., computer maker has used Microsoft’s Vista, introduced in November for businesses and January for consumers, as an opportunity to make hay over the self-proclaimed superiority of the operating system in its own Macs. Microsoft doesn’t agree with that message, noting it has shipped 40 million copies of Vista for consumers. Still, Apple has the hotter hand. Mac sales were up 35% in the first quarter versus a year earlier. PC sales were up by 9%, according to research firm Gartner — a bit better than the prior two quarters, but below the average rate of the past three years.”
“‘Somebody in Cupertino ought to send flowers to Redmond and a nice ‘Thank You’ note,’ hedge-fund manager Jeff Matthews noted in his blog,” Lahart reports.
Lahart reports, “Consumers have been forced to buy Vista, because many computer makers no longer make consumer PCs configured for its predecessor, Windows XP. But FTN Midwest Research analyst Bill Fearnley Jr. reported that many computer sellers are now selling consumers business PCs that run XP.”
Lahart reports, “The hope, on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, is that later this year Vista will start spurring sales. Given companies’ slow and steady purchase plans and consumers’ apparent lack of enthusiasm, that’s a pipe dream, says Pip Coburn of Coburn Ventures. ‘There are people who are disappointed now, and there are people who are going to be more disappointed,’ he says.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
English is a strange language. If people continue to misspell certain words, those word misspellings, over time, become acceptable forms of the word. Just compare American and British Dictionaries.
If you create a word, like craptacular, and it catches on, like craptacular Zune, then it becomes acceptable English.
If people repeatedly use a word or phrase from a different language, it becomes, over time, a part of the English language. English is a living, growing language.
CD’s, DVD’s, PC’s and others are all acceptable spellings of the plural of those nemonics. The person reading the sentence would not think the writer meant the possessive or a contraction for the verb is. However, adding an extra letter to a nemonic, even if it is lower case, does change the meaning of a nemonic.
Mnemonics methinks Guv!
Safari….Is that an English word?
What does it mean?
Has its meaning changed over time?
Safari means acceptable. As in, safari so good.
How about that song “Safari Way”
Safari way
Doesn’t Apple stay in one place anymore?
Ballmer has turned into a media whore.
And when I want to internet explore
I like
Safari Way….
Well, it seems to me that
Vista is the Zune of OS’s
MW: “Friends” as in “Friends don’t let friends run Vista.”
@ Crabapple
Actually, ‘safari’ is not an English word; it was borrowed in the mid 1800’s from Swahili or Arabic.
Curiouser and curiouser this English she is&hellipis;