As noted in previous reports, Microsoft plans to further its relations with Apple following the termination of its five-year agreement with the computer maker. "The agreement has ended, but our business is absolutely continuing," said Kevin Browne, as noted by c|net.
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I found ZDnet's spin on this story amusing...
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-880388.html
"Microsoft to support Macs--for now"
as if they're about to drop them tomorrow... lol
Poor ZDNet and their delusions...
Simple business answers the question before it is even asked:
1. Mac in no longer a threat to Windows. (This is not the early 90s.)
2. Mac products make a lot of money for Microsoft.
3. Microsoft is a business. Businesses do things that make money.
Spare us the soap opera drivel.
A quote from Kevin Browne not in this version of the story:
"For now, we consider the Macintosh a great .NET client."
This means we will NOT be part of the soul-ripping, privacy-destroying, dumb-terminal-rendering power of .NET. That was a close one!
Thanks, Kevin and the gang at MacBU. You guys do right by us.
PS. Absolutely no Access, huh? I know a lot of people will cry, but I couldn't care less. Good call.
Apple is around 8 or 9 percent of computers out in market ,basically a squirt of piss to MS. Let's not get all giddy that they need us and our dollars. It's sort of like Intuit and Quicken ,they wanted to stop making Quicken for Mac 's because it wasn't worth their time and trouble . A big stink was made so they continued to produce, but it's has less features than the PC version.
I Love Windows
And it Loves me!
Custom Blue Screens
define my per-so-nal-a-ty
Dot Net Will Ensure
Office Comp-at-abil-ity.
Non standard formats
and documents,
accessable by Macs to avoid
DOJ arguments
I Love Microsoft
And They Love Me
So please show me the slot
where I insert my money.
PS. Absolutely no Access, huh? I know a lot of people will cry, but I couldn't care less. Good call.
As a programmer who uses Access in his day job, this pisses me off!!! Apple should be pressing MS for this, and big time. Currently, the Mac has no unstable, unfriendly, non-record locking, multi-user (as long as two people don't try to update it at the same time), "corrupts when you just look at it wrong", database. How am I supposed to make money selling Mac software if I can't sell service and support contracts to help repair weekly database corruptions, restoring missing data, and other good stuff like that! This just goes to show you that Apple doesn't care about us little guys!
The DOJ is definitely part of MS's impetus for supporting the Mac. Sure, they make money off the Mac, but I guarantee Bill could find another good use of the money spent on the MacBU that would make more money (like making X-Box games to really push the sales of the thing, and give Sony a run for its money while squashing Nintendo...though I hate MS and the X-Box, so I'm glad this hasn't happened)...if MS keep supporting Apple, and thus helps keep them afloat (how many people upgraded to OS X when Office v.X came out? Tons) then the DOJ has less of a case to say that MS is trying to unfairly use its monopoly power to crush competition.
then the DOJ has less of a case to say that MS is trying to unfairly use its monopoly power to crush competition.
The DOJ doesn't have to make the case MS is trying to unfairly use its monopoly power to crush competition.
It's already been proven and reaffirmed by the courts, twice, and the Supreme Ct. refused to review the appeal. As it stands and has stood for just over two years now, Microsoft is guilty of anticompetitive conduct in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, a convicted corporate felon.
That's great that MS is supporting the Mac. The long term goal is still to eradicate the Beast of Redmond.
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