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Microsoft to Continue Mac Support

Posted by pudge on from the scurvy-little-spider dept.

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."

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  1. LOL! by RobPiano · · Score: 3, Funny

    "though Microsoft says that they do not intend to push .NET for Mac developers"

    Well, duh...

  2. Re:Products. by saintlupus · · Score: 4, Funny

    The mac versions of MS apps are usually nicer, and sometimes more feature laden than their windows counterparts.

    I always thought it was funny that the only element of Office that _didn't_ start on the Mac is Access, which is widely derided for being such a complete and utter piece of shit.

    Of course, even so, Macs are not suitable for Serious Business Use.

    Oh, well. I've got one on my desk, and really, that's all that concerns me.

    --saint

  3. Oooops by Begemot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then Greg Maffei gets an email from Gates saying smth like: 'You spent $150 million on what? 'Don't you listen? I said, 'Snapple!'

  4. /rubs eyes by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 3, Funny

    Entirely my fault because the advice is "read the article" which I did, but I also "read into" the article.

    what it said:
    The premise of .NET is the growing digital interconnectedness of business and personal pursuits

    What I saw the first read:
    The premise of .NET is the growing digital intercourse of business and personal pursuits

    IOW: here they fscking go again.

    Oh, and this gem in the comments:
    Mac ODBC doens't work unless you aren't actually using it...

    MMmmph, snort, ahahahahhhhaaa.
    Yeah, my car doesn't work when I don't use it, either.

    /me reaches for a cluebyfour
    Naaah, you'd just duck.

    .

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  5. No HTML rendering? by Slarty · · Score: 2, Funny
    From the article:
    Microsoft is also updating its IE browser for the Mac. "It's not the product we want it to be," Browne said. "We want to improve performance, implement a security infrastructure, and implement HTML and XML rendering."
    Does anybody else see anything wrong with this statement? Implementing HTML rendering would imply that IE for the Mac doesn't do that already...
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  6. COMPANY SUPPORTS PROFITABLE MONOPOLY PRODUCT!! by Weasel+Boy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will wonders never cease.

    A company that holds a monpoly position in a highly profitable market segment decides to keep selling into that market, without in any way threatening their other monopoly markets.

    Economists everywhere are in an uproar.

    Also in the news, the version of the monopoly product in the market the company does not control will continue to lack desirable, nay, vital features found in the version that they sell into the market they do control.

    Pundits agree that such a daring and novel business method should be protected by a patent.