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
