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Microsoft Works To Find Its Place In Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the yeah-yeah-we-shall-see dept.

eggboard writes "In the Seattle Times, published right across the lake from Microsoft headquarters, I argue that Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) has produced some wonderfully engineered Mac OS X software, but they're generating most of the resentment they get because they miss the details: no Palm sync months after it should have come out; six-year-old broken features in Word; no common format for mail among Outlook, Entourage, and Outlook Express. If the MacBU could fix things as well as they write new features, their Mac customers would have a much better outlook." Tim O'Reilly recently had his own thoughts after meeting with people at MacBU, and meanwhile, MacBU also released Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac OS X. What's the real future of Microsoft on Mac OS X? MacBU's marketing director told O'Reilly to reserve judgment: "Watch us for another six months."

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  1. Make blender drinks by twoflower · · Score: 5, Funny
    The author must use his web browser to make frozen dacquiris or something:
    The Internet Explorer 5 browser has become the benchmark against which I measure the standards compliance of other browsers. The Mac version is far superior to the Windows releases of Internet Explorer except in one area: rendering HTML pages.
    How, exactly, can a browser be superior to its competition if the only thing it sucks at is -- rendering HTML?
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  2. Re:Smart Business move really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You're not implying that you can spell or punctuate, either.

  3. Conflict of interests? by Tuxinatorium · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but microsoft has every reason to use their software to sabotage OS X and make it unstable. ;)

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  4. Re:Microsoft Works? by medcalf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Talk about an oxymoron...

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  5. Why don't you just get a REAL operating system... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...instead of waiting years for software like Microsoft Works to come out for the Mac?

    Oh wait, Mac users still won't get to experience the joy that is Microsoft Works. Sorry, I misinterpreted the headline.

    Well if Mr. Gates doesn't want to share this treasure of home productivity with Mac users, I don't blame him.