“Mac Prices Australia, an Australian site that lists pricing on Apple products, recently tweeted a TwitPic of a McDonald’s WiFi guide that shows the difference between setting-up the restaurant’s WiFi on a PC compared to a Mac — and the difference is pretty obvious,” Jennifer Bergen reports for Geek.com.
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“The relatively clean page on the right is what Mac users have to do,” Bergen explains, “the two left hand pages thick with text and diagrams is for Windows.”
Bergen writes, “I don’t think anyone in the comments can argue for the PC side in this battle, Mac wins hands down.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft. Making things unnecessarily difficult for people since 1975.
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The picture doesn’t even tell the whole story. There should be another page for Windows 7.
Yes, I think the biggest detail is: they have one page per windows VERSION. meanwhile 3 lines for whatever mac you own.
Win7 has its page on the otehr side of the card?
Oh drat. This time there is a step three. 🙂
Jeez MDN- you slug! This is old “news”!
This is a very old problem that Microsoft never addressed. It could be a great TV ad. Stack a pile of “How to install” routines up. Then ask the consumer to pick which they would rather do. You could animate the text of only instructions linking together. Apple’s could reach up to a phone companies’ satellite and Microsoft could reach past the moon into deep space.
“Never addressed”? Really? Not even in Windows 7?
Groan!
See, I gotta use Windows at work. We’re currently on XP, and I hate the way WiFi works, and often doesn’t work. I’ve managed to accidentally disable the wireless card trying to get my laptop to connect to the work WiFi network!
We’re upgrading to Windows 7 later in the year, and I was hoping for a more intuitive, simple WiFi interface, something closer to “just working”. No chance?
——RM
The menu on the right is no-fat…..
(new MS slogon: Billions Not-Served)
…you deserve a break today, get a Mac.
You should have called this article “Mac Donalds” 🙂
WiFi guide at McDonald’s for Windows owners:
– call Morgan Spurlock
– Supersize me
– Buy 10 cheeseburgers and give 9 away to fat boy Ballmer
– Tool around Control Panel and look for the Ronald McDonald icon
– Gnash your teeth in frustration
– Throw your Windows laptop into the fryer
WiFi guide for Mac owners:
– Order Big Mac
– Turn on MacBook ‘the Knife edged’ Air
– Eat
and sadly…some people still don’t and won’t ever get it. it’s the same logic behind political party affiliation. you ask some people why they’re one party or the other and the answer’s usually- “well, my dad..” or “my family is…”
THINK FOR YOURSELVES PEOPLE!!!!
…sockcuckinfuthermuckers!
This picture is PRICELESS !
Hey there is three steps for Mac but only two for Vista?
Anyway Vista is bs. It is such a fail. Let’s go and win Apple. 🙂 We love your easy way to do things. 🙂
No. Look closely. There are 7 steps for each version of Windows. The last two are common.
Oh yeah. They must have hired the Mr Blurry Camera guy from Engadget. Wasn’t sure about it.
And, for the majority of Mac users, it’s likely only two steps since most Macs already have Airport turned on.
MDN…… 1975 ????? I think you mean 1985 ?
Nope. Microsoft has been in business since 1975.
You’re thinking of Windows, which is simply a Microsoft product.
No, they mean 75. Look up DOS or Altair.
Microsoft
Making Internet Computing Really Obscure So Only Fools Try
On Lion it’s called “Wifi” not “Airport”…so there would need to be a little disclaimer on that first instruction for for Lion users.
Don’t talk to me about advertising. On holiday in Sicily for the last three months. In all this time I am bombarded with ads for iRig.mic (there’s three on this page and three on the main page). aftrer THREE months can’t somebody figure out that i’m not interested in this product. This thing is on every single page I view, so I see it maybe 400 times a day at the least.
Once again, my mantra is:
Cool people use macs, windoze is for everybody else. EE
You don’t even have to do that much if you have been to the McDonald’s before. My iPad just connects on its own. It has downloaded my mail and chimed at me before I get to the door of the McDonalds.
I was sitting there the other day with my iPad, with which I was browsing as soon as I opened the cover… I had done a whole bunch of stuff (email, social networking, reading, etc.) and this couple who had been struggling for about 20 minutes finally came over to my table and asked if there actually was active WIFI at this McDonald — they couldn’t access it on their PC laptop no matter what they did — and I assured them there was.
MS — “billions dis-served.”
Windows is too overly complicated for its own good. It takes at least a hundred steps to accomplish what a Mac would do in three. Besides all that clutter makes it very confusing to use.
Numerous errors and typos in this guide. It instructs you to “click on the Airport Icons”, Why the plural form? Is there more than one airport icon? I think not. Also, the guide refers to the Airport icon location as the “tool bar.” I believe the correct term for this would be the menu bar. This guide was obviously written by someone who was NOT a Mac person!
windows last step:
— cross fingers and pray
One of the reasons I switched to Mac was I got a photo CD from Walgreens. The instructions, written very small on a blank photo, were almost all for PC. Mac was 2 lines. The best part, this was MS software.
XP sucks for WiFi. I have had friends who could not find a network I was on with my iPod Touch. I had to lower my security on my WiFi so we could use our XP machines (no longer have).
There are “three” steps on the Mac side… But the first one is to turn AirPort ON; most users have it ON already. The second step is to select McDonald’s WiFi, which may happen automatically, depending on the Mac’s settings. And the third step is to run a browser and have fun with the free WiFi.
So, for most people using a MacBook at McDonald’s, its ONE step to use the free WiFi. JUST DO IT.
(Same with iPhone. I was at a McDonalds the other day. I noticed my iPhone was connected to a WiFi network. I didn’t need to take any steps to connect it.)
Not that I have any desire to eat at McDonald’s but I’d be done eating before I could get a Winblows machine connected to the wifi.
Fail.
What a joke! Apparently MacDonald’s IT is as confused as MDN and all the previous posters . To connect a Windows based machine to MacDonald’s wireless network is identical to what a Mac user needs to do. All the other crap assumes the Windows computer has a static IP address. If the Mac is similarly configured, that user would also have to make some changes in order to connect. Jeez!
Apparently you don’t understand how things work in these here parts.
I just returned from a workshop at St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN. The majority of attendees who brought their own laptops had Macs. Two of those who brought Windows machines had trouble getting onto the school’s wireless network. Those of us with Macs had no trouble at all. Typical, eh?
yes, but THINK OF ALL THE MONEY THEY SAVED BUYING A WINDOWS MACHINE!!!
As we all know, only a FOOL buys anything but the cheapest item possible that might be forced to do the task at hand, no matter how unpleasant it is to make it work.
Because you SAVED MONEY, see?
Of course, they couldn’t get onto the school’s wireless network, but that’s a small price to pay, right?
It would take an awful lot more than free wi fi to get me into a bloody MacDonald’s.