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Mass Microsoft Defections to Apple Possible

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the viva-la-revolution dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention a MacWorld article covering research by the Forrester group. Their report shows that mass dissatisfaction with Microsoft and its products could lead to defections from the company. From the article: "Over all, only Apple and Tivo saw their brand trust rise in the last two years, according to the report. The final tally saw Bose, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Panasonic and Sony earn the highest marks, while Microsoft, Gateway and LG ranked lowest. The low scores for Microsoft could mean good news for Apple as consumers showed their distrust of the Redmond-based software-giant."

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  1. First POST by the_masked_mallard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    YIPEEEEEEEEE!!!

  2. Re:First POST by gnuLNX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow you weren't even close. Are you new around here? The only way to get first post is to continuosly hit the refresh button with a pretyped messaged saved for a quick middle mouse button click.

    Freak'ing Newbs

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    what?
  3. Not surprising by WindBourne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Look, MS has some of the worse QC of any product. Period. Yet, everybody buys them. IOW, most consumers are no longer in control. They allow fewer and fewer companies to control. Back in the 60's/70's, the consumers did control, but now it take decades for them to really influence a company. Sony is not in trouble except in certain products.

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    I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
  4. Re:now more than ever the web will be important? by Ruie · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    she couldn't open some of the attachements. some were .wmv and .ppt files and some were .exe

    I heard someplace that Microsoft Office Mac won't open files created with the Windows version and vice versa.

    I suggest you tell her to try OpenOffice - it will open most Microsoft formats (I did not have any fail on me yet) and one can then use OpenOffice to save in either Windows and Mac flavor.

    As for *.exe - if these are just archives there some utilities for extracting them, however, AFAIK, it is not a good idea to be sending exe files around - what if they get infected ?