TFA mentions right there in the first sentence, "unauthorzied" p2p has been made illegal.
The OMGWTF dumb-as-a-brick type of sensationalism of slashdot entries, with editors that neither read the articles, nor semm to understand even the tiniest amount of their own subject matter is why I visit slashdot less and less, why Digg now has more page views, and why I only read comments at +4 up if I do bother to read the brainless crap that most of the comments are (including my own because if slashdot couldn't give a fuck about me and thinks it's ok to insult my intelligence, then I can't be bothered to act differently)
Slashdot is becoming the geek version of trailer trash.
ETH-Zürich:Niklaus Wirth:Pascal, Modula-2,Oberon Frauenhofer Institute:MP3 EPF-Lausanne:Apple's Quartz Composer etc.
There are some extremely good unis here. My own personal idea is simply that starting a business is less bureaucratic in the US than elsewhere. The comment about Europe and the second world war was simply stupid. How many Americans are still traumatised by the civil war? It was also a long time ago and extremely bloody and controversial.
...Moreover, the changes that telephone and cable companies would like to implement consist of large amounts of bandwidth that a typical small business website would be extremely unlikely to use....
Say goodbye to the American dream and hello to the American reality, where huge monopolies can extort as much money as they like from their customers and where small companies seldom are able to grow their businesses to any real size before one of the giants kill them or buy them out (Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo etc all do this), no matter how good they are.
This bill ensures that the same giant companies that currently dominate the network will dominate it in future. It also now ensure that they can charge even more than they currently do and that small ISP's will not be able to offer any decent streaming services and that those big companies who do offer streaming services will now charge for it whereas they weren't charging before (Google, YouTube and Yahoo will be ecstatic about this, their customers less so). So in fact, prioces will go up, or did the nice friendly Congressman think that those big ISPs will just foot the bills themselves without passing it on, with interest? (He must be one pretty stupid if he did).
Thank god this only applies to the USA, where the so called freedom to compete damaged the ability of mobile phone networks to be accepted nationally (CDMA, vs GSM etc) and where real News reporting disappeared in the rush to earn more money (while groveling and selling their souls to the highest bidder).
At the risk of being redundant, I would just like to say that Apple does NOT license PDF from Adobe (OO I'm not so sure since it originates in Star Office which is from Sun). Adobe wanted Apple to license PDF back when the Quartz PDF graphic engine replaced the Postscript graphic engine (which was licensed from Adobe) from the NeXT days, but Apple declined and instead based their engine on the openly available PDF standard. This is also the reason that there are free PDF libraries for anything from Java to Perl. None of them are licensed but simply implement the standard.
Microsoft's attempt must use features that are not part of the standard, such as Layers or advanced color features.
Despite the HR blurb at the bottom of TFA claiming the Apple India crowd were doing well and all that, I imagine that it was questions of quality that led to the firing of the workforce. Apple's recent Aperture debacle, where it was discovered that Aperture was majorly inferior to Adobe's Lightbox in performance, features and quality probably resulted in a major shakeup in Apple's software development divisions. There have been a number of stories about companies having problems with outsourced software development, and I presume this is another one. My guess is that Apple will probably either increase the size of its Ireland operations or move the development to eastern Europe where the quality is generally known to be good.
I have setup a Linux server to server to both Mac and PC clients on the same volumes/shares using AFP with the Netatalk package, and SMB with Samba. Netatalk, in its new incarnations is by far the best non-apple AFP server available. It works seamlessly with modern OSX clients (10.3 and 10.4), supporting precomposed UTF-8 charactersets, long file names (most commercial NAS devices still only support the ancient appletalk implementation with 32 MacRoman charactersets and glacial unreliable performance) and even Bonjour/Zeroconf support.
Netatalk works surprisingly well with modern Samba versions (post 3.0) that support UTF-8 (and now even includes a netatalk module to ease compatibility), and both samba and netatalk hide one another's specific data from the other so that resource forks are kept and if the mswindows option is enabled in netatalk, the worst character problems (?\ etc in filenames) are safe.
What I would really love to see is a system that reliably combines these, PLUS NFS for Linux shares. The FreeNAS looks good, but seesm to be a bit on the young side without decent Mac support, and god knows there are enough Mac using companies that don't want to have to fork over money for XServes.
Given that we've already had articles on slashdot about how the online tech sites are up for sale when it comes to articles (anadtech, tom's hardware et al, and I'm pretty sure ZDNet as well), I'm pretty sure that Microsoft won't let a major piece of criticism about their family jewels go uncountered online and will get someone or some tech site that is for hire ("want our advertising dollars?") to counter any negative article about whatever Microsoft has once again fudged.
I'm ok with working with Microsoft tools, but I don't trust anything or anyone who actually likes the company itself.
These latops are cute, extremely so. They will sell like hotcakes even in developed countries, where most people care more about the form than the function. Apple had a big seller with the toilet seat iBook. This will repeat that experience.
Not only that, but these laptops, if they sell as well as I think they're going to, are going to be the first real danger to Microsoft's worldwide monopoly. Additionally, I now understand why Microsoft was going bonkers critising this thing and why they've recently come out with their braindead rented computer for the poor idea. They are crapping themselves because they know what this can do to their markets.
Outlook works and 'collaborates' quite well with ANY Mail server I just spent a few months maintaining a Java application that sends, amongst other things, ICal attachments to Outllok clients attached to an Exchange server. ICalendar is an RFC, in other words a standard, and its been that way for years. But Exchange mangles any attachment that it sends on to Outlook (used to crash Outlook 2000, now just won't work in Outlook 2003/Exchange 2003) Exchange does not understand the mime type text/calendar. Neither does it accept standard fields in the ICal itself. The company for whom I was doing this application had a trouble ticket with Microsoft and Microsoft openly acknowledged that Exchange server does not understand standard calendar attachments, but that they would not fix it. EVER.
The thing is, if Microsoft would bring out a version of Office that was bug free, no one would ever buy upgrades. Even with this snazzy new interface (or perhaps because of it) I cannot see it becoming an overnight success until years have passed and companies have to upgrade because Microsoft no longer offers support.
OSS often is a royal pain in the arse, but Microsoft's marketing tricks negate a lot of the technical wizardry they otherwise show.
Then why the fuck do you act like one, fuckhead? Jeezus, umpty billion people in this thread have pointed out the concept of Fair Use (It's the same as you photocopying one page of a book at a uni library to use in a school assignment), and yet the Apple Fanbois, yes, including you, moron, continue to fucking bleat about how fair and innocent and morally fucking righteous Apple is.
I just wonder how people like you manage to survive in this beastly horrid world, where some computers only have one button (but work well and have built in support for almost all two button scroll mice like the logitech cordless I'm using right now on my Mac).
As for 64 bit, well I'm sure you need it to play your games so why don't just go ahead and buy that amd anyway, since you're obviously such a power user that you inform yourself about product details before spouting shit off on the internet.
It wasn't only an American phenomenon. I worked in a Dotcom in Germany back then where our biggest customer was a German company My Media. Innovative, eh? They burned through 200 million in two years (We built a health and lifestyle portal for them) by holding business meetings on chartered yachts in the Seychelles. When they went down, so did we.
They final month before the office was vacated saw the guys smoking weed in front of the webcam, my boss doing coke in the toilets and our isp bill at enormous rates as the guys spent the whole day downloading stuff from Napster and fighting with the sysadmin who was trying to save a bankrupt company from losing even more money.
The BBC lost any courage it ever might have had after the David Kelly and Andrew Gilligan affair which was about the dramatizing of the WMD claims by the British Government, where the director was forced to resign. The result is that the BBC now is terrified of criticising the Bush administration, even though all the WMD claims were proven false and that the UK government was lying as much as the Americna one was.
The BBC has become just a mouthpiece of the UK government, that censors any criticism against it.
Or maybe it'll run on Mono. Mono is fast turning into exactly what about 80% of us predicted it would: a system that no one will touch with a ten foot pole. Or do you know any enterprise applications written in or running on mono based systems? (Not that you, as an MS cocksucker, would know anything else than windows)
This is a troll, so you may want to mark it as such, but IMHO the BBC is to technology reviews as gardening magazines are to motor vehicles: The BBC knows only one operating system, and that is Windows, and one software company, and that is Microsoft. When the BBC writes about any computing article, it's usually from the point of view of a Microsoft press release, and their articles on any other piece of computing or technology is usually very suspicious and highly critical.
To be fair, I don't think they are really trolling for MS. I think they simply ask the same reporters to write articles on computing that they ask to write articles on the Queen's birthday.
Mod this down if needed, but think about it, please.
I Couldn't really give a flying fuck what you want. I for one am extremely glad that Apple sells laptops with usable screens as opposed to Dell (I used to have an Inspiron 8200 with 1600xwhatever resolution) where, even using Windows fucking awful large fonts, the text was tiny. The software I use, Adobe products, use hard coded font sizes in their apps and they become unusable at that resolution.
But whatever, you're just trolling in any case because judging by the way you come when you mention your Dell piece of shit, you wouldn't switch for the world.
After reading TFA I realised that Crindely has stated this ability in OSX as a reported FACT, not as speculation. His commentary on WINE being some kind of middleware as opposed to an integrated part of the OS is what threw many off. I think now, after having thought about this, that this is sheer brilliance on Apple's part, and a number of people are going to worry about this instead of sleeping, and one person just won't care, but I'll get to that later.
This move, running Win32 apps native in OSX will be to Apple's Intel Macs what Classic was to PPC Macs, and it most likely will work exactly the same. You will have in OSX 10.5, on Intel Macs, the ability to run any Win32 app with bog standard Windows GUI elements as we know and love them. I am pretty sure that Apple's implementation of Win32 will be better than WINE's and will give all those who want to run Windows apps, and there are legions of us who do. Of course this is aimed mainly at enterprise users and those home users who want to run MS Office or some such stuff. I doubt DirectX will work which means no games, unless Apple allows one to add dll's and registry features, but it might well be possible too.
Whatever the case, it removes any barrier that might have existed for Apple in the enterprise or the home (either dual boot or run native - Apple allows it all). Plus it wedges the door wide fucking open for OSX adoption.
The catch would have been the OS/2 story, but Apple has thought about this. Win32 apps will look just like bog standard Win32 apps under OSX. They will certainly not implement Cocoa GUI elements, which means they'll be about as piss ugly as the already implemented X11 and Mac Classic integration. Apple will be relying on its SILENT SALESMEN(TM), i.e. all the Mac freaks, to do what they did with Mac Classic: bombard the software companies for OSX native versions of the software. Never underestimate Apple's word of mouth salesmen. It's how Apple recovered in recent years and how the iPod became so popular.
While I doubt Michael Dell or HP are going to lose any sleep over this - 90% of humanity will still not know the difference between Apples and Oranges and will still only shop on price - Microsoft will see this as a worrying trend, because people don't need a Windows license to use this. IN fact, I think this is almost certainly one of the reasons behind the Vista rewrite that started a couple of years ago. Microsoft has copied just about every OSX feature they can, right down to changing the freaking sidebar into a Dashboard copy. They must really be worried about OSX user uptake enough to do that, or else they certainly wouldn't bother. Nonetheless, it certainly shows that Microsoft, despite the large amounts of talent there, are creatively bankrupt. Copying is not innovation.
The one person I mentioned earlier who won't care anyway, because he's too dumb to, is Dvorak. His one single claim to fame - That Apple was moving to x86 - was pure and utter shit. He imagined Apple making "standard" beige boxes (The guy still refers to the huge mix of x86 based crap as "standard", and hasn't really realised that Apple's x86 machines are "standard" in all but the BIOS). He recently claimed Apple would move to Windows. He will almost certainly claim that Win32 apps running natively under OSX is some "marketing test campaign", just like he claimed Boot Camp is one. He'll still be claiming that when OSX and Apple machines go over th 10% marketshare border. He's simply too dumb to see reality. Dvorak will still be trolling about Apple releasing OSX for Dells and HPs and Acers in 10 years, long after the rest of the market has forgotten him.
It would be an incredible gamble on Apple's part to do something like this because it really would take away the incentive for developers to develop for OSX using the Cocoa APIs and XCode tools, both of which Apple has been working on for many many years. Why would developers bother to develop Mac versions of their software?
On the other hand, if Apple did implement MFC or Win32 in OSX and it was successful, it could torpedo.NET takeup. BUt I don't think it would work.
I think, if you really hurry, you could get your post printed by MS's PR dept. They are the ones who usually put out blurbs like that, praising the "Radical new technology of Windows -insert version here-".
You lost me the second you mentioned the most radical new thing since whenever. MS has said that same thing with the the release of every single version of Windows, and I don't really see how much will change with the whole.NET thing anyway, since it's Windows only.
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TFA mentions right there in the first sentence, "unauthorzied" p2p has been made illegal.
The OMGWTF dumb-as-a-brick type of sensationalism of slashdot entries, with editors that neither read the articles, nor semm to understand even the tiniest amount of their own subject matter is why I visit slashdot less and less, why Digg now has more page views, and why I only read comments at +4 up if I do bother to read the brainless crap that most of the comments are (including my own because if slashdot couldn't give a fuck about me and thinks it's ok to insult my intelligence, then I can't be bothered to act differently)
Slashdot is becoming the geek version of trailer trash.
One day, you Yanks will learn that there are more shades of grey than just Capitalism and Authoritarianism.
ETH-Zürich:Niklaus Wirth:Pascal, Modula-2,Oberon
Frauenhofer Institute:MP3
EPF-Lausanne:Apple's Quartz Composer
etc.
There are some extremely good unis here. My own personal idea is simply that starting a business is less bureaucratic in the US than elsewhere. The comment about Europe and the second world war was simply stupid. How many Americans are still traumatised by the civil war? It was also a long time ago and extremely bloody and controversial.
...Moreover, the changes that telephone and
cable companies would like to implement consist of large amounts of
bandwidth that a typical small business website would be extremely
unlikely to use....
Say goodbye to the American dream and hello to the American reality, where huge monopolies can extort as much money as they like from their customers and where small companies seldom are able to grow their businesses to any real size before one of the giants kill them or buy them out (Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo etc all do this), no matter how good they are.
This bill ensures that the same giant companies that currently dominate the network will dominate it in future. It also now ensure that they can charge even more than they currently do and that small ISP's will not be able to offer any decent streaming services and that those big companies who do offer streaming services will now charge for it whereas they weren't charging before (Google, YouTube and Yahoo will be ecstatic about this, their customers less so). So in fact, prioces will go up, or did the nice friendly Congressman think that those big ISPs will just foot the bills themselves without passing it on, with interest? (He must be one pretty stupid if he did).
Thank god this only applies to the USA, where the so called freedom to compete damaged the ability of mobile phone networks to be accepted nationally (CDMA, vs GSM etc) and where real News reporting disappeared in the rush to earn more money (while groveling and selling their souls to the highest bidder).
At the risk of being redundant, I would just like to say that Apple does NOT license PDF from Adobe (OO I'm not so sure since it originates in Star Office which is from Sun). Adobe wanted Apple to license PDF back when the Quartz PDF graphic engine replaced the Postscript graphic engine (which was licensed from Adobe) from the NeXT days, but Apple declined and instead based their engine on the openly available PDF standard. This is also the reason that there are free PDF libraries for anything from Java to Perl. None of them are licensed but simply implement the standard.
Microsoft's attempt must use features that are not part of the standard, such as Layers or advanced color features.
Despite the HR blurb at the bottom of TFA claiming the Apple India crowd were doing well and all that, I imagine that it was questions of quality that led to the firing of the workforce. Apple's recent Aperture debacle, where it was discovered that Aperture was majorly inferior to Adobe's Lightbox in performance, features and quality probably resulted in a major shakeup in Apple's software development divisions. There have been a number of stories about companies having problems with outsourced software development, and I presume this is another one. My guess is that Apple will probably either increase the size of its Ireland operations or move the development to eastern Europe where the quality is generally known to be good.
I have setup a Linux server to server to both Mac and PC clients on the same volumes/shares using AFP with the Netatalk package, and SMB with Samba. Netatalk, in its new incarnations is by far the best non-apple AFP server available. It works seamlessly with modern OSX clients (10.3 and 10.4), supporting precomposed UTF-8 charactersets, long file names (most commercial NAS devices still only support the ancient appletalk implementation with 32 MacRoman charactersets and glacial unreliable performance) and even Bonjour/Zeroconf support.
Netatalk works surprisingly well with modern Samba versions (post 3.0) that support UTF-8 (and now even includes a netatalk module to ease compatibility), and both samba and netatalk hide one another's specific data from the other so that resource forks are kept and if the mswindows option is enabled in netatalk, the worst character problems (?\ etc in filenames) are safe.
What I would really love to see is a system that reliably combines these, PLUS NFS for Linux shares. The FreeNAS looks good, but seesm to be a bit on the young side without decent Mac support, and god knows there are enough Mac using companies that don't want to have to fork over money for XServes.
Given that we've already had articles on slashdot about how the online tech sites are up for sale when it comes to articles (anadtech, tom's hardware et al, and I'm pretty sure ZDNet as well), I'm pretty sure that Microsoft won't let a major piece of criticism about their family jewels go uncountered online and will get someone or some tech site that is for hire ("want our advertising dollars?") to counter any negative article about whatever Microsoft has once again fudged.
I'm ok with working with Microsoft tools, but I don't trust anything or anyone who actually likes the company itself.
These latops are cute, extremely so. They will sell like hotcakes even in developed countries, where most people care more about the form than the function. Apple had a big seller with the toilet seat iBook. This will repeat that experience.
Not only that, but these laptops, if they sell as well as I think they're going to, are going to be the first real danger to Microsoft's worldwide monopoly. Additionally, I now understand why Microsoft was going bonkers critising this thing and why they've recently come out with their braindead rented computer for the poor idea. They are crapping themselves because they know what this can do to their markets.
Outlook works and 'collaborates' quite well with ANY Mail server I just spent a few months maintaining a Java application that sends, amongst other things, ICal attachments to Outllok clients attached to an Exchange server. ICalendar is an RFC, in other words a standard, and its been that way for years. But Exchange mangles any attachment that it sends on to Outlook (used to crash Outlook 2000, now just won't work in Outlook 2003/Exchange 2003) Exchange does not understand the mime type text/calendar. Neither does it accept standard fields in the ICal itself. The company for whom I was doing this application had a trouble ticket with Microsoft and Microsoft openly acknowledged that Exchange server does not understand standard calendar attachments, but that they would not fix it. EVER.
The thing is, if Microsoft would bring out a version of Office that was bug free, no one would ever buy upgrades. Even with this snazzy new interface (or perhaps because of it) I cannot see it becoming an overnight success until years have passed and companies have to upgrade because Microsoft no longer offers support.
OSS often is a royal pain in the arse, but Microsoft's marketing tricks negate a lot of the technical wizardry they otherwise show.
You said it brother.
Then why the fuck do you act like one, fuckhead? Jeezus, umpty billion people in this thread have pointed out the concept of Fair Use (It's the same as you photocopying one page of a book at a uni library to use in a school assignment), and yet the Apple Fanbois, yes, including you, moron, continue to fucking bleat about how fair and innocent and morally fucking righteous Apple is.
Talk about sheer mindless stupidity.
So do you always apologise blindly for Apple, regardless of what they do?
I just wonder how people like you manage to survive in this beastly horrid world, where some computers only have one button (but work well and have built in support for almost all two button scroll mice like the logitech cordless I'm using right now on my Mac).
As for 64 bit, well I'm sure you need it to play your games so why don't just go ahead and buy that amd anyway, since you're obviously such a power user that you inform yourself about product details before spouting shit off on the internet.
It wasn't only an American phenomenon. I worked in a Dotcom in Germany back then where our biggest customer was a German company My Media. Innovative, eh? They burned through 200 million in two years (We built a health and lifestyle portal for them) by holding business meetings on chartered yachts in the Seychelles. When they went down, so did we.
They final month before the office was vacated saw the guys smoking weed in front of the webcam, my boss doing coke in the toilets and our isp bill at enormous rates as the guys spent the whole day downloading stuff from Napster and fighting with the sysadmin who was trying to save a bankrupt company from losing even more money.
The BBC lost any courage it ever might have had after the David Kelly and Andrew Gilligan affair which was about the dramatizing of the WMD claims by the British Government, where the director was forced to resign. The result is that the BBC now is terrified of criticising the Bush administration, even though all the WMD claims were proven false and that the UK government was lying as much as the Americna one was.
The BBC has become just a mouthpiece of the UK government, that censors any criticism against it.
Or maybe it'll run on Mono. Mono is fast turning into exactly what about 80% of us predicted it would: a system that no one will touch with a ten foot pole. Or do you know any enterprise applications written in or running on mono based systems? (Not that you, as an MS cocksucker, would know anything else than windows)
*Looks at the fact that Bruce and Sheila are posting as AC's*
So you're the fucker who's been trolling for MS all this time?
Hey, if that's the way you feel, fucker, just dig 'em up and take 'em home. You can also shove 'em up your arse, if you feel like it. Sideways.
This is a troll, so you may want to mark it as such, but IMHO the BBC is to technology reviews as gardening magazines are to motor vehicles: The BBC knows only one operating system, and that is Windows, and one software company, and that is Microsoft. When the BBC writes about any computing article, it's usually from the point of view of a Microsoft press release, and their articles on any other piece of computing or technology is usually very suspicious and highly critical.
To be fair, I don't think they are really trolling for MS. I think they simply ask the same reporters to write articles on computing that they ask to write articles on the Queen's birthday.
Mod this down if needed, but think about it, please.
I Couldn't really give a flying fuck what you want. I for one am extremely glad that Apple sells laptops with usable screens as opposed to Dell (I used to have an Inspiron 8200 with 1600xwhatever resolution) where, even using Windows fucking awful large fonts, the text was tiny. The software I use, Adobe products, use hard coded font sizes in their apps and they become unusable at that resolution.
But whatever, you're just trolling in any case because judging by the way you come when you mention your Dell piece of shit, you wouldn't switch for the world.
Fine.
After reading TFA I realised that Crindely has stated this ability in OSX as a reported FACT, not as speculation. His commentary on WINE being some kind of middleware as opposed to an integrated part of the OS is what threw many off. I think now, after having thought about this, that this is sheer brilliance on Apple's part, and a number of people are going to worry about this instead of sleeping, and one person just won't care, but I'll get to that later.
This move, running Win32 apps native in OSX will be to Apple's Intel Macs what Classic was to PPC Macs, and it most likely will work exactly the same. You will have in OSX 10.5, on Intel Macs, the ability to run any Win32 app with bog standard Windows GUI elements as we know and love them. I am pretty sure that Apple's implementation of Win32 will be better than WINE's and will give all those who want to run Windows apps, and there are legions of us who do. Of course this is aimed mainly at enterprise users and those home users who want to run MS Office or some such stuff. I doubt DirectX will work which means no games, unless Apple allows one to add dll's and registry features, but it might well be possible too.
Whatever the case, it removes any barrier that might have existed for Apple in the enterprise or the home (either dual boot or run native - Apple allows it all). Plus it wedges the door wide fucking open for OSX adoption.
The catch would have been the OS/2 story, but Apple has thought about this. Win32 apps will look just like bog standard Win32 apps under OSX. They will certainly not implement Cocoa GUI elements, which means they'll be about as piss ugly as the already implemented X11 and Mac Classic integration. Apple will be relying on its SILENT SALESMEN(TM), i.e. all the Mac freaks, to do what they did with Mac Classic: bombard the software companies for OSX native versions of the software. Never underestimate Apple's word of mouth salesmen. It's how Apple recovered in recent years and how the iPod became so popular.
While I doubt Michael Dell or HP are going to lose any sleep over this - 90% of humanity will still not know the difference between Apples and Oranges and will still only shop on price - Microsoft will see this as a worrying trend, because people don't need a Windows license to use this. IN fact, I think this is almost certainly one of the reasons behind the Vista rewrite that started a couple of years ago. Microsoft has copied just about every OSX feature they can, right down to changing the freaking sidebar into a Dashboard copy. They must really be worried about OSX user uptake enough to do that, or else they certainly wouldn't bother. Nonetheless, it certainly shows that Microsoft, despite the large amounts of talent there, are creatively bankrupt. Copying is not innovation.
The one person I mentioned earlier who won't care anyway, because he's too dumb to, is Dvorak. His one single claim to fame - That Apple was moving to x86 - was pure and utter shit. He imagined Apple making "standard" beige boxes (The guy still refers to the huge mix of x86 based crap as "standard", and hasn't really realised that Apple's x86 machines are "standard" in all but the BIOS). He recently claimed Apple would move to Windows. He will almost certainly claim that Win32 apps running natively under OSX is some "marketing test campaign", just like he claimed Boot Camp is one. He'll still be claiming that when OSX and Apple machines go over th 10% marketshare border. He's simply too dumb to see reality. Dvorak will still be trolling about Apple releasing OSX for Dells and HPs and Acers in 10 years, long after the rest of the market has forgotten him.
It would be an incredible gamble on Apple's part to do something like this because it really would take away the incentive for developers to develop for OSX using the Cocoa APIs and XCode tools, both of which Apple has been working on for many many years. Why would developers bother to develop Mac versions of their software?
.NET takeup. BUt I don't think it would work.
On the other hand, if Apple did implement MFC or Win32 in OSX and it was successful, it could torpedo
Nope, I think this is a bit too far fetched.
I think, if you really hurry, you could get your post printed by MS's PR dept. They are the ones who usually put out blurbs like that, praising the "Radical new technology of Windows -insert version here-".
.NET thing anyway, since it's Windows only.
You lost me the second you mentioned the most radical new thing since whenever. MS has said that same thing with the the release of every single version of Windows, and I don't really see how much will change with the whole
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