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Microsoft to Continue Mac Support
rakeswell writes "Though Microsoft's five-year agreement to support some Microsoft applications on the Mac has come to a close, Microsoft announces that it will continue its support of the platform. This means that new versions of Office, IE, ODBC, and Palm synchronization will be made available for Mac OS X. Also, they intend to build in .NET support for the Mac, though Microsoft says that they do not intend to push .NET for Mac developers."
MS did this for OSX? I did not know that..
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God damn you're an idiot.
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Fucking idiot.
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Sometimes, I just do not understand these ppl! They go out of their way to steal technology (http://be.com) and rule the market, yet they continue to support their greatest competitor in the desktop market? Let's face it, no M$ Office on the Mac, and it is dead!
Besides, this is ammo for their argument that they're not a monopoly - they're nice and work with everyone.
Uhhh... so their argument that they're not a monopoly is, according to you, that they not only have their software running on 95% of x86, but also on ppc computers as well?
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and I will continue using Appleworks, Mozilla, and Palm Desktop, because I don't want to support MS any more than strictly necessary.
Yes, lets all not use the best products available simply because they were created by someone we don't like.
Lets instead put up with inferior shit (NetScrape 4.x) just because we like the compaines more...
I sure hope you don't make purchasing decisions for your company.
I think that the reason that Macintoshes are dismissed out of hand is because your average computer user would not know where to find the "Start" Button on the Macintosh.(no, not the power button).
In other words, 99% of the people who know how to use a computer know how to use a pc. One of the reasons for this is because anyone can buy a >1gHz PC with Windows installed for around $400.
And this doesn't mention the added headaches that would be introduced when Mac people and PC people need to share resources. Yes, admittedly, I am a PC person. I once had a mac friend burn a CD for me of
I don't know if he had to use some converter utility or not to make it where my PC could even read the disk, but the result was that many of the resulting files didn't even have file extensions, and the ones that were there used an bizarre naming scheme with all caps, names only 8 characters or less, etc. I had to spend hours renaming the songs and then re-burn the disk, just so I could tell what the songs were. It doesn't matter which OS was at "fault" what matters is that if I own a company in the normal business world, then I would want my employees to use the business-standard pc, so sidestep this sort of headache. If my business were in the art or music world, then perhaps it would make sense for them to use the mac standard.
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it would be impossible to develop an office suite to run on OS/X. The development environment on OS/X is quite bad making the development of an Office suite slow and painful - if not practically impossible (it would take 10 years). Besides Microsoft Office has years of stability behind it ...
Without Microsoft Apple is nothing since Apple itself is unable to use it's own development environment to create an office application.
YHBT
What I meant was anything about any SDK, not basic programming concepts.
You obviously have never used either.