oh, they'll fix vista. vista is the second millenium. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 7:37 PM Subject: Re: intel mac only?
Not to digress to far from the thread, I did find it entertaining to hear that Microsoft apparently will be releasing a new os in about nine months or so. I wonder what mess they'll come up with next. On Sep 18, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > A common pattern over the years has been to watch Apple's popularity > come and go. When it gets popular all the Windows marketing people > start thinking "Our dodad is popular on Windows and with the Mac > getting popular we should port or stuff to that platform and gain a > few jillion new sales". This usually fails on a number of levels. > Mac users have a deep rich OS and so many of the Windows dodads sole > purpose is to work around bad Windows behaviors which just don't > exist on the Mac. Mac users also have a low tolerance for junky > software. They are using a polished refined OS and expect the same > of anything they add to it. If you only had
