it can display other feeds. you have to subscribe to the feed thru IE7 and then the feed becomes available for viewing in the gadget. Stll, MS has tied everything together and requires the use of IE7 to make the gadget fully functional...

Why are so many Microsoft executives attending the Mac World Wide Developers Conference (including Jim Allchin, the head of Windows development)? Vista was supposed to be finished in 2005. Instead of finishing Vista with their own ideas, top Microsoft officials are paying thousands of dollars to attend WWDC, to get into workshops about Mac OS X, an operating system that Bill Gates says copied Vista (!) and is not innovative.

What does that tell you? That despite all its posturing, Microsoft has no idea what it's doing.

abu sofia, maybe you have lower expectations than I do, doesn't mean MacNN doesn't need to improve. Besides, looks like I'm not the only one who thought MacNN's writing/editing was lacking on this one.

[quote]Allchin acknowledged that the company may not be able to match the performance of Apple's Spotlight desktop performance: "I don't believe we will have search this fast," he said in an emailed reply in late June. Apple developer conference was held just weeks before, from [/quote] -MacNN

This quote isn't even finished!!! Talk about terrible journalism from our infamous MacNN...

"Allchin acknowledged that the company may not be able to match the performance of Apple's Spotlight desktop performance: "I don't believe we will have search this fast," he said in an emailed reply in late June. Apple developer conference was held just weeks before, from ", says MacNN...

Way to go!!! From what?! Great Journalism!

...i also enjoy the irony of posters who point out errors, while providing their own new ones ;-)

but macnn has been a mess lately. i love the design and layout structure, but they need some real editors. i agree with many posters on here that sometimes you can't even make out the intent of a paragraph. not nitpicking on typos, although those abound... i'm talking about news stories that make no sense.

i hope things improve.

My point wasn't that they couldn't improve Andy. You'd be hard-pressed to find a site that couldn't be improved upon, eh? What are you publishing these days?

My point was simply that, if you're going to knock somone's writing skills in such a public forum, you should at least check your diatribe before you post it. Even your response above shows that you really don't care all that much about readability. You just wanted to put someone down for the fun of it.

to talking about the post? I'm a grammar cop too, but jay-sus, people...

But madgunde isnt a writer for a major online news site, is he?? LOL!!

You can certainly criticize the grammer of anyone who posts to this forum, but until they are paid for what they write as journalists, your comments are not that useful. And it comes across that YOU just wanted to "put someone down" because it irked you rather than to improve a discussion.

I love to hear the M$ developers/business gurus were shaking in their boots after experiencing 10.4. We all knew it, but having the docs to back it up make me smile.

abu sofia,

MacNN has a comments section for a reason, they are inviting people to comment on the story, and I did just that. While I do my best to write as clearly (and accurately) as possible when posting a comment, I don't think it is realistic to be comparing my post, which was intended to be informal, with an article that was posted by an established commercial website such as MacNN. I also didn't realize one had to be a published writer to provide constructive criticism.

But thank you for pointing our my errors, I shall strive to avoid making them in the future. By the way, I believe you missed a comma in your first sentence, and you're missing an 'e' in the word "someone" in your second paragraph.

See, now I was just putting someone down for the fun of it. :-P

What are we, like a whopping 3% of the marketshare? (Mac users, that is.)

In street terms, that's like a 6-foot gangster running from a 2.16-inch superhero. Hahahaha! I'd use a Mac with or without this drama, but its funny to watch M$ squirm. ;]

http://groups.google.com/group/cgmug

Get back on topic. We have seem these damn grammar n**** ruin countless threads.

We mac users have suspected that MSFT was copying Apple all along but to see that Jim Allchin drooling over Spotlight is priceless.

Isn't it ironic that so many MSFT fanboys were claiming that Spotlight was inferior to WinFS? Oh the irony is so delicious.

I'm with you. The writing and grammar in many macnn stories makes me roll my eyes. Then I drop my forehead to my open palms, feeling embarrassed to be associated with anything Macintosh.

It's surprising that the macnn editors don't pick up on the numerous errors.

Seriously, stop with your critique of other people's grammar. It is off-topic and nobody except you cares.

MS should quake in it's boots. Macintosh computers are kind of viral in nature and the installed user base is implacable-they just won't drop the platform. Yeah, Apple is only at 4-6% right now, but if you were building a OS like MS is, you'd be plenty worried about switcher joining and never leaving the Apple faithful.

I can see Apple hitting double digits in terms of market share in just a couple of years. MS sees this as a nightmare. If the momentum continues in the direction it has some analysts project Apple/Windows Parody in just under a decade.

If you were as uninspired as MS clearly is, wouldn't you be worried about an innovative company focused on customers, their user experience and quality? This is just too good-I love watching it.

BTW: It is generally acknowledged that posts to threads-such as this-are extemporaneous in nature. Meaning; if the point of the message is made, then a few missing punctuation marks, spelling errors and grammar faux pas are okay.

Now, if posts were a dissertations, term papers, or loan applications, then complain away. Otherwise, skip the missives you find grammar challenged and move on to those more compatible with your reading sensibilities.

I'm looking more for opinion and insight than grammar insofar as these posts are concerned. You should too.

macnn is in the business of writing. They should indeed get it right nearly 100% of the time.

In any other editorial department, even a tiny fraction of the mistakes in grammar that we see here would result in staff members getting fired.

At the amateurish macnn, mistakes are par for the course.

Maybe it's just me, but I expect people to demonstrate skill and competence when acting within their profession.

Reading macnn is like watching a 1-14 NFL team play the last game of the season.

Yet, you still show up to watch the game even when this game is not the only game in town. I wonder what that says about you.

... I know where to go for some simple entertainment.

Mystery Science Theater! : )