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iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the along-with-everywhere-else dept.

bblazer writes "Wired is running an article about how despite the displeasure of management, the iPod is the most popular music player on the Microsoft campus. The article states that 80% of those who have digital music players have an iPod. Employees have even started using different headphones to be a bit more stealthy about it."

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  1. FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes?

    1. Re:FP? by skaffen42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yes?

      No. Now grow up.

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  2. Re:Representative of Microsoft's "vision" by GoofyBoy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    >I mean, how pathetic is this sort of blatant, shameless me-tooism? ....
    >Just my two cents from an Apple fanboy.

    *cough*cough*

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  3. Re:Amazing that corp security allows them by Ironsides · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    >A 40Gb writable device that easily attaches to one's computer.

    Yeah, but Microsoft knows that all of their PCs run Windows and hence will never stay up long enough to write that kind of data anyway.

    We get great uptime here at work and at home. Last time we rebooted was to install security updates. All PCs we have that are not on the network go for months without rebooting. Uptime is not a problem. Patching is.

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  4. PC competition for I-Mini dotMAC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When dotMAC announced their "I-Mini" McIntosh, it caught my eye. Wanting to buy/build a small computer for my already cramped breakfast bar, I started pricing out similar hardware. The results startled me. Most of the configurations I found were more than the humble US$499 of the "I-Mini" McIntosh. To match price I had to configure with a much bigger shuttle-style case.

    My question is this. What PCs are currently on the market to compete with this? When my wife asks for the "cute little MAC", what real computer can I buy instead?

    1. Re:PC competition for I-Mini dotMAC? by eclectic4 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's "Macintosh", not McIntosh. It's Mac not MAC. A MAC refers to something completely different, as noted by the acronym-like capitalization. Why in the world would an abbreviation (Mac for Macintosh) be capitalized?

      In true /. form, I call you all... ID10Ts.

      MAC: Mandatory Access Control, Media Access Control, etc...

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  5. Exactly by ad0gg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because apple invented the first mp3 player. Oh wait they didn't. What have they invented? GUI nope, mouse nope.

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  6. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.gif by i41Overlord · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.gif

  7. Re:Bill buys Apple? by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Ah! The stupidity to post as an AC, and the stupidity to vote Bush. It kind of fits.

    "There's an old saying in Tennessee. I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says: Fool me once... shame on... shame on you... If fooled, you can't get fooled again."

  8. Re:Bill buys Apple? by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not American. My favoured party is in power. I'm not speaking for Democrats when I point out how dumb you are in electing that fool. The rest of the world knows it too.