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Why Microsoft Is Beating Apple At Its Own Game

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bite-outa-the-apple dept.

ttom writes "OSWeekly.com looks at Microsoft's promotional strategy and concludes that Microsoft is beating Apple at its own game." From the article: "Apple is to blame for this, at least to some extent. They just had to go and release Boot Camp, didn't they? By the way, please don't take my sarcastic tone as an expression of my dissatisfaction for the product. I think it's great, and I really never expected to see something like Boot Camp come out of the Apple Camp. I know that users have bombarded them with requests for officially allowing Windows usage on a Mac, and the fact that they yielded to these requests is interesting because they've emphasized the OS X and Windows experiences as being completely separate for quite some time."

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  1. There is another game in town by cyber_rigger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://mehmeterturk.blogspot.com/2006/09/xgl-on-li nux.html

  2. Re:Summary headline is incorrect. by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    2) Apple scoring lowest on a "Green" survey - when Dell scored second highest.

    I'm running patched OS X on a Dell Precision 530. Hmm - the best OS on the most eco-friendly of hardware. It even works 99% of the time once the correct patches were applied - the only exception is that the network settings panel crashes, so the net card has to get it's address via DHCP (not a big deal since you can push a static IP address to it).

    -b.

  3. Which hammer? by woodycat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If we discussed which hammer to use to drive in a nail as much as the debate Windows vs. Apple, nothing would ever be built. I care not what operating system, I care that the job is done using the tool in my hand at the time. Both operating systems do it and equally well (though improvement via competitive evolution will occur). I'll get on with my work now on XP at this time.