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Exploring the Mac OS X Object System
Philippe writes "F-Script is an integrated set of tools that makes it possible to interactively explore and manipulate Cocoa objects as well as script them using new high-level programming techniques. This new article, Exploring Cocoa with F-Script, shows you how to use some of its most impressive features and demonstrates how it can be a useful addition to your developer toolkit."
Apple will be partnering with Microsoft in a deal that will rock the computing world.
Microsoft will adopt the good parts of OS X and rebrand the system as Microsoft's own. Microsoft has a new from scratch OS they have been working on but it is nowhere near ready to save Microsoft from the Vista disaster. Microsoft needs something soon. OS X + virtualization is going to be the answer.
With Apple desktop marketshare continuing to slide lower, down to 2 percent now?, they want to focus on the high growth digital media side of the company. Jettisoning the going nowhere Intel Mac hardware line and pawning off OS X to Microsoft will allow them to lock up the digital media market because...
In exchange for OS X Apple will get from Microsoft the adoption of Apple's digital media APIs and formats.
Both companies will be effectively splitting up the computing world into two distinct areas of control just like certain superpowers did hundreds years ago with parts of the globe.