A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard's Exchange Support

imamac writes "Apple Insider has an interesting perspective on the MS Exchange support built into Mac OS X 10.6 and how it essentially frees Apple from all things Microsoft: 'Windows Enthusiasts like to spin Apple's support for Exchange on the iPhone and in Snow Leopard as endorsement of Microsoft in the server space. From another angle, Apple is reducing its dependence upon Microsoft's client software, weakening Microsoft's ability to hold back and dumb down its Mac offerings at Apple's expense. More importantly, Apple is providing its users with additional options that benefit both Mac users and the open source community.'"

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And the other office formats

[Rix]

Word/Excel files are still a must for many people.

Still, OS X isn't a competitor to Windows, because it doesn't run on commodity hardware. Lots of people would be willing to license OS X, but few are willing to consider the anaemic Mac hardware line.

Re:How does this *free* Mac users?

[gilbert644]

Well it doesn't really surprise me to see that apple users don't understand the meaning of (software/hardware) freedom.

Re:"dumb down?"

[Zero__Kelvin]

"As an added bonus, you don't even need to use WINE to run windows apps - they run natively!"

You know what else runs natively? Botnets, SPAMbots, various Virii, worms, etc. I know that if I was writing computer viruses, I definately want the IP address of someone who is running Windows.