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Microsoft's Mac Business Unit

Posted by michael on from the oil-and-water dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an interesting piece on the folks who work at the Mac Business Unit for Microsoft."

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  1. Not only Macs... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    [posted anonymously due to my employment at Sun]

    Microsoft also uses Sun servers internally. Not for development mind you, but to run their database and email servers. Enterprise 10,000's running iPlanet, exchange simply can't handle the load of 55,000+ users.

    Last time I talked with anyone who dealt the MS account, the Sun service guys had to remove their badges and cover up any Sun logos on boxes and packages going into the facility.

    For the record, Sun still uses no MS products internally. (other than a few laptops with XP here and there.) Sun really does run on Sun.

    -k

  2. Re:Needs presentation skills by prockcore · · Score: 0, Troll

    working on crazy new things for iLife (like GarageBand).

    I can't see GarageBand being a reason to switch to the Mac. GarageBand is a toy for people who are already Mac owners. Windows owners would have to give up the following (better) software packages when they switched to the Mac:

    Reason 2.5
    Sonar 3
    Vegas 4

    As well as loop software like:
    Acid 4
    Fruity Loops

    I think far more people would use OpenOffice on a mac than GarageBand.

  3. Re:Needs presentation skills by prockcore · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not entirely true. Reason is fully supported on OS X and OS 9.

    Cool, I didn't see that. Now to get Cakewalk and Sony to port Sonar and Vegas.

    But I think my original point still stands. GarageBand is a toy, not enough to get people to switch to the mac.

  4. even scarier quote up front. by twitter · · Score: 0, Troll
    You are worried about an employee's actions, but you fail to accomodate the environment the poor bastard works in. Right up front was the clue you needed:

    People sometimes stare when Microsoft Corp. executive Tim McDonough opens his laptop in meetings. But that's probably to be expected when someone uses a Mac PowerBook in the center of the Windows world.

    "I can get challenged to see my employee badge," he says.

    That's a sick place to work. So much for all the BS posts I've read around here from M$ apologists about how open and free the Microsoft campus is. "They let you use whatever tool you want, as long as you get the job done," they sang out as if centrally directed. Right. No he was not joking and yes, it can get you fired. That's really fucked up. In an environment of horrid group think like that, what can you expect?

    --

    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.

  5. Re:more like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    Moderators: Please note that "twitter" is a known fanatical psycophant whose obnoxious offtopic rants are legend here on Slashdot. It doesn't matter what the topic is, he'll find a way to scrape in some pointless Microsoft bashing. While nobody expects us to love Microsoft in any way, his particularly tepid style of calling anyone he replies to "troll" or "liar" because he happens to disagree with whatever they're saying is well documented and should not be rewarded. If anything, twitter is the type of person that should not be part of the open source/free software community. He is an anathema to all that is good about free software.

    I'm posting this so that you (the moderator) have some context to consider twitter and not mod him up whenever he posts his filler preformatted rants about installing Knoppix or whatever that unfortunately get him karma every single time and allow him to continue posting his trademark toxic crap (read on) day in and day out. You may consider this a troll - I consider it community service. And I ain't kidding.

    If you're a /. subscriber, I invite you to look through some of his posting history. I guarantee that you'll be hard pressed to find someone that is more "out there" than twitter. You'll also probably notice he's got quite an AC following. Don't just read his posts, make sure you go through the replies.

    For example, in this recent post twitter not only calls the OP a troll but attempts to "tell it like it is" while making some vague argument about "GNU". Yes, if you're confused, you're not alone. The reply (modded +4) proceeds to simply destroy his bogus argument. You will notice he did not reply. This is what some people call "drive-by advocacy". A sort of I'll just leave you with my thoughts here and move on to the next flamebait kind of deal. In fact, he almost never replies because he knows that his fanatical arguments simply do not hold up to any sort of discussion. It's not that he's chosen the wrong cause - he's just going at it in a completely wrong way.

    More? Just read though this post and the subsequent replies. I guess this stands on its own.

    More? Bad spelling in astounding conspiracy theories, more offtopic FUD and uninformed "I'm right, look at me" rants, promptly proven wrong. Worse even, twitter wants to be RMS, apparently (that first one is a winner). I mean, really. You think?

    FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD, offtopic FUD, and more FUD. This guy is like the Monty Python SPAM skit, but with FUD and more FUD instead of canned meat. Amazed