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Will Apple's Lion Roar For Business?
An anonymous reader writes "Apple has long had a troubled relationship with IT departments. Any creative professional will testify just how hard it can be to convince IT managers to allow the use of Macs in Windows-dominated environments. And, despite the fact that the Mac OS is now quite a well-behaved client on Windows LANs, Apple sometimes does little to help its own cause. The decision to release OS10.7, or Lion, for download only is hardly going to endear Apple to IT managers who need to conserve network resources. Most of all, IT departments would want to see the Mac OS offering full support for virtualization, on the desktop and on the server. There are rumors that Apple will, itself, run a virtualized version of Mac OS under VMware as part of its iCloud product. Allowing OS X to run as a guest on non-Apple servers, and even on the desktop under VDI, would bring enormous administrative benefits to companies using Macs."
So he thanked you for pointing out the network infrastructure was horribly broken, right?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
You seem very slow. Do you need us to draw you a picture or something?
I guess so, I just don't see what's so offensive about it.
The line says "any creative professional" not "Mac-using creative professionals". That's false.
Sure. Commander Data would agree with you.
It would be like saying "as any woman knows, Ace Cleaning Products are the best!"
Generalizing about millions of people is hard and print demands brevity. Applying literalism to this is just nitpicky.
Of course that's not what you meant because for some reason you'd rather be a dick about this than read the black-and-white line that has already been quoted for you.
I'm a creative professional who works in Windows. My whole team uses Windows. We make creative decisions that create huge ripples throughout the projects we work on. Yet that statement didn't bother me in the slightest. I don't understand why your panties jumped up into your crack about it.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
The ones using Windows clearly found it not just hard but impossible.
It used to be downloading porn was the network stress test. Now its operating systems. How boring have we become?
Does it matter? The email sig on my Ipad 2 said "Sent from my Ipad" I changed it to "Sent from my Ipad 2!" Guess im a pretentious asshole now....
Good-bye