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When Henrico County near Richmond, Virginia did this, they initially had considerable problems with systems breaking. Part of that was educating students in how to handle the systems properly. Part of it was underestimating the support needs of 25,000 laptop users. Even if 1% of the systems break each year, that's still 250 repairs a year. Initially, the county didn't have an on-site repair shop; machines had to be shipped to DC to be fixed.

Interestingly, after two years of iBooks in schools, the issue has generated enough controversy to be an issue in school board elections. The results? Two incumbents were voted out - including the chairman.

... these /. mac fags should go get their own site and leave real enthusiasts/nerds alone.

Okay. I'll bite. Dear Mister Troll sir...as to us having a site of our own...we do. In fact we have several from which to choose. And, pray tell, what in your tiny little troll-like mind leads you to believe that Mac users are all of a particular sexual orientation of any kind at all? Or that mac users don't qualify as nerds? And by some strange twisting path of logic that we don't in some way belong here?Newsfalsh! The mac now not only sports a command line environment, but you can set your environment to your shell of choice!

I know, I know, please don't feel the trolls. Move along. Move along...

If iTunes has been around for years, then it could hardly be the 'coolest invetion of 2003', since it was supposedly invented years ago and being used.

Here is an article explaining low-k dielectric. I believe this is a shipping product on the Power4/4+ based systems and it is in the EXA chipset on the x365/x440/x445/x450 Intel servers, and the Apple G3 and G5. The xSeries products even have little copper BB's in the grill of the system to symbolize that they use copper based technology.

Info at MacWorld

Apple's going to patch Jaguar. Details at MacCentral.

see post on Macentral at 12:35pm [EST]....now go find some other lame excuse to justify your choice in OS

According to MacCentral, Apple will be releasing patches for 10.2. I'd be willing to bet Apple just wanted to see how much of a fuss users would make over this issue.

You know, it just might, if it was the drive's chipset causing the corruption.

The scary thing is I actually thought twice. A number of folks have called BS on my last post, so I've resorted to google to back up my memories of several years back. There's a good article here. They were G3s and not G4s, like in that photo. My bad.

Try google. Type "microsoft macintosh development." Hit enter. Click the second link. Look at the photo. Look at the G3s in the lab. Go to fucking hell.

That poster was me. I interviewed in Redmond 12/11/2000. Do a quick google search, and you find this.

Straight from the horse's mouth. Frankly, I can't imagine why it's working for you--apparently G4s have a "little-endian" compatiblilty mode that G5s lack, that VPC depended on. Microsoft said so. Would they have lied? Been mistaken? Are you mistaken about how it's working? Now I can't wait until Monday to test it on my own work machine.

I'm sorry, but i did not find "WebObjects" mentioned once in the two relevant PDF's. The only thing is that the JBoss Admin app is a WO App, given the .woa in the url of the webbased program. I'd expect seamless JBoss integration, but seamless WebObjects integration?

"Xserve and WebObjects Power iTunes Music Store" writes Jim Dalrymple on MacCentral. "Apple based the store on Mac OS X Server and Web Objects 5.2 using Xserves and Xserve RAIDs to store the more than 200,000 songs available to the public." [Jun 03 2003]

So Apple or webobjects developers, fill us in. What ever happened to the the XServe serving the iTunes Music store running WebObjects?
Any future FileMaker lookalike plans?

WebObjects Inc. ?

Starts up with basic commands (ssh and the like), giving way to more in-depth info, XML configuration files, etc.

There seems to be some sort of centralized group of commands. For instance, there is the 'systemsetup' command, that handles a plethora of tasks: energy saver, time, sleep-wakeup, languages, startup... That might be helpful and a cool deviation from the traditional make-changes-in-many-places syndrome that has plagued UNIX and the like for years.

OTOH, there's a nice review of Panther Server with cool screenshots on Maccentral.

http://www.macworld.com/2003/09/reviews/macworldla bfirstg5testresults/

As you can see the numbers match up with the PC World chart for the Quake III & Photoshop tests. But you'll also notice that MacWorld says that "All systems had 512MB of RAM" So, in actuality the G5s in the tests had half the RAM that PCWorld said they did. I'm not sure how much a difference that would have made but I'm sure it would have helped the G5 numbers somewhat.

Gotta love microsoft...take any cheap shot at Apple possible.

I think iTunes Music Store has a pretty relaxed DRM compared to others.... and you can't beat an iTunes/iPod combo.

How about we wait another 8 days before we start talking about problems with Panther. This is more of a what to expect page but I am SURE the beta the author used will be a LOT different then the final product. Geez!

Seems like the author just needed something to talk about since the beta has been available for some time and what to expect was well documented in MacWorld like 2 months ago!

Apple is in Austin too and over the years Macs have had a solid presence on campus. Austin is Dell's headquarters but there are a lot of big tech firms in Austin, including IBM, so I don't think being neighbors was a significant factor.

Maybe you mean that those other players are going to compete with the iPod? Yeah, that's probably what you mean. Hmmm.

iPods are... $299 for 10GB, $399 for 20GB, $499 for 40GB.

(Who the #$%^&#$& has 40 frickin' gigs of MUSIC? I mean, I don't think there are radio stations with playlists that big!)

Rio's Karma 20 is... $399 for 20GB. Comes with a dock and stuff (though it looks like the dock will use up an electrical outlet, since it's not Firewire). Doesn't look like it's anything but a music player, didn't see mention of the extra apps an iPod has. But, well, same capacity, same price, okay, I guess that's competing.

iRiver's HP-100 is... $399 for 10GB. Hey, that's a great idea! "Apple's charging an arm and a leg for the iPod and it's selling like hotcakes covered with blow and naked babes... let's price ours even higher so we can sell even more! Yee-ha!" Uh... no, that's not competing. Even if they'd gotten away from the stale, er, ahem, time-honored "Sony Walkman" look.

Philips' HDD-100 is... well, I couldn't find anywhere selling them, so I'm not sure how much competing it's doing.

The RCA's someone mentioned are cheaper - $199 for 10GB and $249 for 20GB - but they appear to be discontinued and those are closeout prices.

I was talking to an analyst the other day who seemed convinced that the new tiny el-cheapo hard drive from Cornice were going to rule the roost. Well, maybe among the people who only want 1.5GB of storage and are happy that they can get it for significantly less than the cost of 1.5GB of flash RAM... but that's only a few hundred songs. Hardly the sort of thing you'd want to use as the emergency backup for a radio station.

Mac-world, while not really un-biased, did a thing on the durability of iBooks quite awile ago. I would not imagine that things have gotten any worse since then.

In addition to that, having been the guy that fixes coumputers at a sorority for over three years now, I would say that iBooks have a much high ability to absorb shock. I dropped mine from my knees onto a hardwood floor (onto it's corner) and it never stopped playing the dvd.

In addition to this, having been the guy that fixes computers at a sorority for over three years now, I would say that iBooks have a much higher ability to absorb shock. I dropped mine from my knees onto a hardwood floor (onto it's corner) and it never stopped playing the dvd.

here is some non-anecdotal evidence.

According to this article, VeriSign spent millions of dollars to develop SiteFinder.

What I'd like to know is this: what exactly did they spend all that money on? For a cool two million, you can pay 20 really smart people $100,000 each for a year's worth of labor. It's hard to imagine that it really took that much manpower to redirect requests for non-existant domains to their web page.

I'd guess that they'll spend a few million bucks on lawyers if they decide to try to push SiteFinder past ICANN. But I just can't believe that 20 very expensive man-years went into developing their "product."

As Martha would say, this is a damned Good Thing(C).

It is interesting to note that Paul Allen is the chairman of Charter, and has been since he bought the company in 1998. Perhaps this will give fuel to the entertainment industry to say that technology, technology companies, and anybody tainted by either, are evil? (See here.)

Nonetheless, it is important that formidable companies stand up to the entertainment industry and its henchmen. Charter and Verizon (see story) are two folks who you'd want on your side.

justen

Oh for fuck's sake. Check it out:

Apple ships the G5 with 10.2.7.

"We have temporarily removed the Mac OS X v10.2.8 software update while we resolve an issue affecting Ethernet networking on small number of Power Mac G4 desktop systems. We anticipate that the issue will be resolved soon," said the statement in its entirety.

The full article can be found here:
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/09/23/102 8pulled/index.php?redirect=1064334986000

Physicsnerd

"802.11g is still a 54Mbit/sec standard," Bell told MacCentral. "802.11b is 11Mbit/sec, but your actual throughput is somewhere between 4 and 5-1/2Mbit/sec. The number that's quoted is the data rate that's used between the radios (raw data rate, which includes the protocols etc.)"

Although internal tests have shown slightly higher data rates, the actual data rate for 802.11g will be approximately 20Mbit/sec, which is 4 to 5 times higher than 802.11b. Bell said the data rate has always been around 20Mbit/sec and hasn't changed in the final draft standard.

Build a time machine and go back to murder whoever initiated the deal to purchase bungee, then buy it for the PC the way it was originally planned.

Bungie was one of the few Mac only game houses that produced good games for the mac all the way back to my first first person shooter, Marathon. Most people don't realize, but Halo was announced for the Mac. If you look here you can find links to the video of the premere of Halo for the mac at Macworld '99 New York. I was at that keynote when Steve Jobs introduced the 2 minute movie for Halo rendered using the game engine in real time, not pre recorded. I almost creamed my pants. I remember thinking to my self that this was the game that was finaly going to bring the Mac into the gaming arena. Even my PC using Mac bashing friend who I dragged with me was drooling over it. Alas, before it's Macintosh release, Microsoft bought out bungie and made them the "X-Box Development Team". That was a sad day for us Apple people all over. Bungie was known in the mac community as a top noch developer of mac games including one of our first first-person shooters, Marathon. At least you can still pick up the Bungie Mac Action Sack and try some of the awsome games this company once made for the macintosh.

Actually, the fan noise issue was fixed in the latest G4 model (released January of this year, one sits silent on my desktop right now), the one that Jobs was comparing the G5 to. The model with all the noise issues that a few "fanboys" (was that a dig or just a clever play on words?) had to send back were released in August of last year.

Regardless, I'd take a noise/performance ratio test between a Mac and any comparably equipped Dell any time.

This line--that Windows has the largest market share in worms and viruses because Windows has the largest market share--was trotted out in the last few weeks during the peak of the Sobig and Blaster activity, and routinely shot down. The problem is inherent design flaws, not market share. Many have pointed out that unix-type OSes run the majority of critical Internet services, and by the market-share argument, these services should be the subject of continual attack. And yet they are not.

In short, this argument that greater adoption of unix-type OSes by the masses will result in more unix-type worms and viruses is nothing short of FUD.

Have a look at Mac's Immunity to Recent Virus Attacks which came about in response to an article posted on MacCentral on this topic. In sum, some columnist repeated the assertion that "Macs have "no more inherent security" than their PC counterparts, it's just that they've failed "to capture interest" among the creators of these viruses." This post is fairly representative of many, and makes clear the vulnerabilities of Windows are real, stem from technical reasons, and not just market share.

Mac OS X is the subject of the links above because that is where my interests lie, but the jist of the arguements could apply to any unix-type OS

From this article at MacCentral.

"Virtual PC for Mac Version 6.1 will not run on the new G5 machines," MacBU Product Manager, Jessica Sommer, told MacCentral. "G5 users will get an error dialog letting them know that Virtual PC does not support the CPU in their Macintosh. The dialog allows the user to click directly to the Mactopia Web site to access support information."

Virtual PC relies on a feature in the G3 and G4 processors that is no longer present in the G5 chip. Sommer said that Microsoft is rewriting large portions of the Virtual PC code to make it compatible with the new processor.

So version 6.1 (recently released by MS) will NOT run on any Mac with a G5 processor.

And it's a good thing those options exist since IE is no longer going to be developed.

Of course it won't get too much better until it can run on Macs with the G5 processor, which the current version doesn't per Microsoft as mentioned in this article on MacCentral.

I find it interesting that they only mention VPC 6.1 as not running, though I assume this applies to 6.0.1 as well.

They must not have gotten the memo.

This is just one school and less than 300 machines, but a few days ago the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Beachwood Middle School has equipped all of its students and faculty with iBooks.

MacCentral: Beachwood, Ohio school getting iBooks
Cleveland Plain Dealer: New Beachwood school virtually equipped

Administrators tend not to like Apple because they look at dollars, and Apples appear to be expensive. I know that when I worked at Northwestern University, we had to continually fight for Apple against that attitude. However, I also know that in NU's public computing labs, one Mac administrator could manage at least three times as many machines as one PC administrator.

Macintosh sales, in absolute terms, have declined since the peak under Michael Spindler. Apple was selling 4 million units a year in 1994/1995/1996; since then it's been selling roughly 3 million units a year, with one outlier in the maximum year of the Internet bubble (2000).

Don't forget to add ipod sales, close to 4 million units in 2002. It's the thing that has Apple revenues higher than anytime in the last 4 years or so.. If sales units are down and revenue is up, great. Me oh my, revenue up in a stagnant IT market more than it was in the "buble" market? Yep, this is the Apple rebound.

Expect it to eat M$'s lunch. Between free software for routine office work and xterminals, Apple for digital media and xterm work, where is Microsoft's nitch? The M$ damb was breached years ago, there's little to hold it up besides DRM and no one wants that. Where you going to go when the levee breaks? Flush goes M$.

You mean like this small department server?

OS X 10.0 shipped with a 2D/3D accelerated driver for the RagePro in this machine. Apple dropped all 2D/3D hardware acceleration in 10.1, making the machine essentially unusable under OS X.

Are you sure they dropped support in 10.1 that was present in 10? Sounds pretty odd. I was under the impression that Mac OS 9 had drivers, but Mac OS X never did. MacCentral seems to back that up:

More recently, however, G3 users migrating from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X have discovered that they've lost features like DVD playback, support for hardware graphics acceleration using OpenGL and hardware-accelerated QuickTime movie playback.

[...]

Older Power Macs, iBooks, iMacs and PowerBooks sport slower ATI graphics accelerators, and to date, Apple has not provided OS X drivers or application software that offer the same capabilities as drivers and applications under 9.

- Scott

MacCentral reports that Finale for OS X will be available in October of this year.

I'm not a musician, so I have no idea of the quality of this software; but the timeframe was in question, so now you know.

What's the fun of being a Mac pundit unless you are biased?

Pudge, was that a shot, or just good-natured ribbing? Gruber writes the best-written (and yes, most opinionated) columns on Apple-related topics anywhere, on the web or in print. In other words, it's not just a diary with a few sentences about whatever came into his head on the way to work that day, nor is it hype-mongering drivel about Apple, but rather they are extremely well thought-out and tightly-written articles. Pudge, you're a smart guy (I've heard you speak and read your own blog/mail list posts), you don't need to be reminded that all news media contains bias. I'm glad that Gruber has the sack to acknowledge this, and write what he really thinks rather than tone down his writing to get syndicated on some mainstream Mac site.

I don't agree with everything Gruber says, but his feed is at the top of my NetNewswire client and I look forward to his content every week. I think a lot of people will take your comment out of context -- care to explain?

"After running our RenderMan benchmarks, we can now say that the G5 is the fastest desktop in the world"

This according to Pixar president Ed Catmull, who is an early booster of the Power Mac G5. An introduction video for the Power Mac G5 posted to Apple's own Web site features Catmull explaining that the G5 allows Pixar animators to show frames at full resolution.

This comes amid speculation of a Rendezvous-enabled (G5) Xserve rendering cluster, which would allow 3D shops to set up a plug-and-play rendering cluster which works in conjunction with RenderMan. Couple this with the availability of other 3D applications like Maya, and of course the sheer number of other production and DV applications like Photoshop, AfterEffects, Final Cut Pro, and Shake and the Mac seems to become an ideal platform for 3D production.

Corel is being buried alive, and at breakneck speed, by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and a former MS executive who, incidentally, also worked for the McKinsey consultancy firm which validated the post-MS investment strategic U-turn. Under the deal all Corel products would be privatized for a measly $30M. Corel shareholders - who've also pushed for Linux support long and hard - hope to canvass enough NO VOTES to scrap the deal but the raiders are tilting the rules in their favour.

It all went horribly wrong after the Linux powerhouse merger agreement between Corel and Inprise/Borland was derailed three years ago. We understand that Borland (in which MS had a shareholding stake) had valid reasons for pulling out under the agreed terms, but the combination would still have made perfect sense. Corel founder and CEO Mike Cowpland was soon ousted and CTO Derek Burney was named interim CEO. Conveniently soon afterwards Burney's half-acquintance, Microserf Tom Button, gave him a call and invited Burney for a visit at the MS campus and before we knew it, he had signed a $135M investment deal with MS, accompanied by an incredibly one-sided Alliance deal in which Corel had all the commitments and Microsoft basically none. In his debt of gratitude, Burney even promised not to sue MS over any anti-competitive tactics that MS "may" have used in their MS-Office offensives. Next Burney drew up a new strategy based on those commitments - again incidentally killing all Linux efforts and reducing emphasis on anything competing with Microsoft - and submitted his ideas for "validation" by McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm with strong culture of alumni networking.

Naturally, McKinsey also happens to have a long-standing and very intimate business relationship with Microsoft as consultants to their strategic planning. It should therefore be noted that Robert Uhlaner, the McKinsey executive partner who had been working as a consultant to Microsoft and who had "led the West Coast Corporate Finance & Strategy practice, supporting the firm's technology clients on strategy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), alliances, and premerger planning", was given a top executive position at Microsoft in February 2003, in which his aim is to "increase strategic alignment between the Microsoft's finance and business groups". That pretty well sums up what happened to Corel between the Microsoft investment and disinvestment, in just 2½ years! Questions arise as to what involvement Mr. Uhlaner had, officially or unofficially, with the Microsoft-supportive strategic advice given to Corel in late 2000 and early 2001, or with Vector's friendly and private purchasing of the Corel shares Microsoft held, which happened almost immediately after his arrival to Microsoft.

From 2001 onwards Corel milked the increasingly-abandoned WordPerfect Office for revenue while toiling away on its dotNET descendant. Staff was getting laid off as a three-year turnaround plan was revealed to be centered on a dotNET-based enterprise system for massaging corporate data and delivering it in realtime to any type of devices through extensive use of XML and SVG graphics. Corel even bought SoftQuad and Micrografx t

Macworld UK says "WozNet is a lost cause"

Macworld has a pretty decent article

Cryptonomican bemoans the lack of information about security

Google has the goods

And there's even an article on Slashdot about it...

Last time I looked at it it was essentially a watch with both GPS and GSM (phone) built in so one could get the location of the watch at any time through their service. Sounds like a potentail DOS atack, though, if you obtain phone numbers or cell phone connection information (jamming signals, jamming GPS, etc)

Plus, since all the power is being used by the phone and GPS (chances are good the actual GPS processing is done elsewhere, like in the current E991 GPS services offered by phones) then it's unlikely that much encryption is being done at all.

-Adam

The story can be seen here. This isn't brand new news. (The iBook thing)

Very, very few people, apparently, have both technical knowledge and managerial knowledge.

The problem mentioned in the Slashdot story appears to be that Bruce Chizen, Adobe president, is not prepared for the intellectual challenge of running a technical company. He's been a salesman and marketing manager all his life. Now Adobe has become dependent on Acrobat, and has a big customer for Acrobat, the IRS (U.S. Internal Revenue Service).

It's amazing. The job pays extremely well, even though the smart people are gone, Adobe has laid off people, and the stock is slowly sliding.

We live in a business climate in which a few people at the top make a huge amount of money, and other people suffer, even though they helped make the money.

There seems to be a pattern with technological companies. The people who really understand the technology get tired and go on to other things, or are forced out of the company they founded (as was Jobs at Apple). Everyone pretends that nothing has happened, and the company runs on inertia for a while. With luck, the new managers, who try to hide the fact that they really don't understand what the company does, encounter a business upturn. But inside the company is dying.

John Sculley was a sugar water salesman (Pepsi) before he came to Apple and forced Jobs out. Apple looked okay for a while, but slowly lost importance. Then Jobs came back, and Apple became very important.

Adobe's Postscript is brilliant technology. Using Postscript to make PDF files is brilliant. Knowing what photo editing tools need to go into Photoshop requires deep technical understanding. Probably Bruce Chizen understands none of this. Can a manager run something he does not understand? No.

I use two, emusic and iTunes (which appearantly is going to be available for Windows this year).

And when did these services go on-line? You have heard the president of Sony music saying the success of iTunes woke the industry up, making them realise they could make money this way?

The problem has been, and always has been, the record labels refusing to give the customer what they wanted: diversity, choice and fair pricing. If you want to hear the songs of a new artist not on the Top 40 or Clear Channel's Can-Play list, or just listen to the back catalog of a New Wave 80s group, you basically had no option other than piracy and P2P. Internet Radio stations were few and far between, and their diversity was limited (for reasons we all know and love). The demand was there, but the RIAA just didn't want to give their customers what they wanted.

That, my good sir, is why P2P exists. It stepped up to fill a void by music buyers to try and discover before they buy. The idea that "sharing" people won't buy has been debunked so many times, it's not even worth my time to look up the links for you. You are defend ing the RIAA's stupidity and avarice. Their arguments don't hold water anymore, and it's time to find a new whine other than "theives and freeloaders!"

Corel shareholders fight suspicious takeover deal

Corel is being buried alive, and at breakneck speed, by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen and a former MS executive who, incidentally, also worked for the McKinsey consultancy firm which validated the post-MS investment strategic U-turn. Under the deal all Corel products would be privatized for a measly $30M. Corel shareholders - who've also pushed for Linux support long and hard - hope to canvass enough NO VOTES to scrap the deal but the raiders are tilting the rules in their favour.

It all went horribly wrong after the Linux powerhouse merger agreement between Corel and Inprise/Borland was derailed three years ago. We understand that Borland (in which MS had a shareholding stake) had valid reasons for pulling out under the agreed terms, but the combination would still have made perfect sense. Corel founder and CEO Mike Cowpland was soon ousted and CTO Derek Burney was named interim CEO. Conveniently soon afterwards Burney's half-acquintance, Microserf Tom Button, gave him a call and invited Burney for a visit at the MS campus and before we knew it, he had signed a $135M investment deal with MS, accompanied by an incredibly one-sided Alliance deal in which Corel had all the commitments and Microsoft basically none. In his debt of gratitude, Burney even promised not to sue MS over any anti-competitive tactics that MS "may" have used in their MS-Office offensives. Next Burney drew up a new strategy based on those commitments - again incidentally killing all Linux efforts and reducing emphasis on anything competing with Microsoft - and submitted his ideas for "validation" by McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm with strong culture of alumni networking.

From 2001 onwards Corel milked the increasingly-abandoned WordPerfect Office for revenue while toiling away on its dotNET descendant. Staff was getting laid off as a three-year turnaround plan was revealed to be centered on a dotNET-based enterprise system for massaging corporate data and delivering it in realtime to any type of devices through extensive use of XML and SVG graphics. Corel even bought SoftQuad and Micrografx to merge their technologies into the project codenamed Deepwhite. Great idea but with somewhat misguided execution.

In 2002 Corel managed to strike a few high-profile albeit limited OEM preload deals with the likes of Dell, HP and Sony. While Corel received little in terms of revenue from those deals, even that limited success must have come as a shock for Microsoft. "How dare those ingrate nobodies invade our holy turf!" could have been the likely reaction at Redmond. With the anti-trust spotlight under a friendly operator it was time for the final strike, and how better add insult to injury than by not just taking Corel out but actually keeping the corpse within the family!

In December 2002 the Paul Allen financed Vector Group, managed by a fo

According to Greg Joswiak, Hardware VP at Apple, "the G5 is not going in a PowerBook anytime soon." (the article mentioning this is here)... Keep in mind though that Apple wants to keep selling their Powerbook G4s until the second that the Powerbook G5 comes out, so he is kind of obligated to say something like this.

As much as the current Powerbook G4s are sexy (I own the 550 MHz model), I would also recommend waiting a little while to see if there are any more developments about the Powerbook G5. Keep checking thinksecret.com, macrumors.com, macosrumors.com, spymac.com and such to find out!

Regardless of which Powerbook you opt for, you won't be disappointed -- they really are great machines. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at i_love_junk_email@yahoo.com (yes, it's a real address!)...

Not anytime soon.

And I quote:

"Motorola is huge for us," said Joswiak. "Our partnership with Motorola is not going away, G4s are in every other part of our product line. As you can see, [the G5] is not going in a PowerBook anytime soon. Motorola remains very important to us, but IBM is the one that can take us to the next level."

There may well be aspects of MacOS X that Apple copied from the Windows GUI. Gods know, it certainly went the other way. But if he substantiated his case, then he's still not a troll.

FWIW, while demoing Panther in his keynote yesterday, Jobs specifically noted Windows XP had beaten Apple to one of its features, fast user switching. He did qualify this by saying "it's the only feature I can think of like that," but I think it's remarkable he was honest enough to acknowledge even one thing that XP had first. Can you imagine Gates or Ballmer or someone else from M$ demoing a new version of Windows, and acknowledging one of its features as an Apple innovation?