MS was planning on sending the patent back to the future.. er.. past... to file it before unix "talk" and other chatting programs had this feature, but lost their flux capacitor when teh server holding their inventory was hacked.
The article DOES miss out on all the MS-office macro viruses that affect the mac.... which effectively raises the total of mac viruses above the otherwise correct 40-ish.
OTOH.. you can still lay the blame for that on MS's door.
Some things are "cool" for no other reason that they run counter to the mainstream. Apple has a throng of devotees partially because they aren't Microsoft.
Add to this the fact that Apple produces kick-ass products and you can see why they remain cool. They've demonstrated that they aren't a passing phase.
Microsoft can pay all of the money in the world and still not (and won't) buy that kind of following.
Plus, you don't see Apple pushing the issue with DRM and all of that other bullshit. Once again they are counter (cool) to the mainstream (dud).
I would think a little more than partially my friend. I'm relatively agnostic but i can tell you which of my computers I get upset about when something goes wrong and it sure isn't my windows machine that I hand-tooled. A lot of Apple-fanatics take pride in not using MS, even when MS actually does something better.
Many mac users also feel a lot more attached to their machines than most windows users do. A hgher percentage of them, for example, tend to name their machines. Until MS can get people to feel as strongly and personally about their products, they will never get the "cool" cachet.
Insofar as kick-ass.. *shrug* sure some of the performa powerpc's had reliability issues and they has some issues with relative computer performance off and on, but insofar as the consistent attention to quality, finish, and thought shown in the design of the OS and hardware... heck yeah, by a long shot.
Note: apple does use DRM... but they also try to strike a reasonable balance, and don't assume everyone is a thief.
Asimov in one of his autobiographies discusses an experience from his academia days.
After already making a healthy income as an author, he had taken a stand on some issue that few other professors there would, despite tenure, because of money issues.
When asked (in admiration) years later by another professor at the shool where he found the resources to stick himself out like that, he replied "Independent income."
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MS was planning on sending the patent back to the future.. er.. past... to file it before unix "talk" and other chatting programs had this feature, but lost their flux capacitor when teh server holding their inventory was hacked.
Ya wouldn't happen to mean touting win2k.1 as a whole new operating system (XP)??
nahhh.. never.
The article DOES miss out on all the MS-office macro viruses that affect the mac.... which effectively raises the total of mac viruses above the otherwise correct 40-ish.
OTOH.. you can still lay the blame for that on MS's door.
Many mac users also feel a lot more attached to their machines than most windows users do. A hgher percentage of them, for example, tend to name their machines. Until MS can get people to feel as strongly and personally about their products, they will never get the "cool" cachet.
Insofar as kick-ass.. *shrug* sure some of the performa powerpc's had reliability issues and they has some issues with relative computer performance off and on, but insofar as the consistent attention to quality, finish, and thought shown in the design of the OS and hardware... heck yeah, by a long shot.
Note: apple does use DRM... but they also try to strike a reasonable balance, and don't assume everyone is a thief.
Asimov in one of his autobiographies discusses an experience from his academia days. After already making a healthy income as an author, he had taken a stand on some issue that few other professors there would, despite tenure, because of money issues. When asked (in admiration) years later by another professor at the shool where he found the resources to stick himself out like that, he replied "Independent income."