Try this, fire 4 rounds from an AR-15(or M-16 if your lucky) with no earplugs. Now try to hear ANYTHING.
Huh? I was in the U.S. Marines and fired my M16 many times with no earplugs and had no issues. Do you think Marines in combat are running around with earplugs?
I have been using/. for many years now (different UID's).
I remember "Overly Critical Guy" being a pro MS dude(always). Is this just some MS shill? I am not trolling, I am just wondering why "Overly Critical Guy" looks to have done a 180 on his stance on MS.
Oh, so I can use this "email service" from my Mac or Linux computer? No? Move along then.
P.S. How does a service go "alive" exactly? Did MS manage to build some Frankenstein service?
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Or is there some kind of insurmountable barrier that prevents Direct X 10 from even theoretically running on XP?
Yes, those barriers are called Microsoft Money(tm)(not the program), Microsoft Marketing(tm) and Microsoft Lawyers(tm). DX10 support in software only is junk, just like software-only support for OpenGL is junk. You need it in the hardware of the video cards. MS won't let NVidia or ATI/AMD put out drivers that work with non-Vista OS'es that have support for DX10. Period. I can guarantee it is part of the licensing deal. So even though DX10 could certainly run under Win2K or WinXP, MS just won't allow it. That is the whole _point_ of crappy proprietary stuff. The person holding the keys gets to call all the shots.
In constrast, OpenGL 2.x can be used on just about any OS. If NVidia and ATI/AMD update their hardware to support OpenGL 2.x (like they have for more recent cards), the software drivers for any OS will know how to take advantage of the features in OpenGL 2.x.
With proprietary junk like DX10, you get extreme limitations imposed by the "key holders". What MS says, goes WRT DirectX. Sadly, too many game companies bought into the DX bandwagon since they were generally making MS-Only games, they didn't care about an MS-Only gaming API.
I wish the game companies came together and really pushed OpenGL so that the games would not be locked down to MS-Only.
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So MS using OpenAL should be applauded? How long until they "extend" it in a non-open manner? What about the rest of DX10? Is it open? Nope. So any DX10 games will still only work MS Windows. No Mac or Linux support.
Stop with the "MS is doing open stuff" until MS actually comes out with something that is open from end-to-end. Heck, IE supports open standards like HTML, CSS (to some extent), EMCA JavaScript, etc. However, it is the proprietary crap that MS throws on top that makes sites "IE-Only", like client-side VBVScript and the MS-Only conditional comments, etc.
I don't know why you were mod'ed "Offtopic". Some people need more brain cells. However, you are certainly allowed to have curved glass on a driver-side mirror. Did you ever see a fish-eye mirror? You can go into any car parts store and get a stick-on fish-eye. I don't think anyone would suggest that a fish-eye mirror is not curved. I don't know what the GP was talking about.
Heck, I drove a few bigger delivery trucks when I was going through college here in the USA. The trucks had a big rectangular flat-mirror and a big fish-eye mirror on both sides.
I haven't looked up the law, maybe it is illegal to only have a fish-eye, curved mirror on the driver side. However, they are certainly not illegal here in the USA as an adjunct mirror. I have one on my mini-van.
Have you ever used the web front-end to Exchange 2003 in a non-MS-only browser? I have. It sucks. Big time. It is really stupid IMO to pay for MS Exchange and try to make it an IMAP server. If you want to be MS-Only, and use only MS Exchange and only MS Outlook, then fine. MS Exchange is the package for you. However, trying to buy some MS "solution" and trying to make it standards compliant is just stupid. Microsoft doesn't play in the standards compliant field. They take a standard and "embrace and extend" and totally screw it up and try to make it proprietary and call it "IP". You can get better standards compliant IMAP servers that are Open Source. From there, you can plug in nice web-mail front-ends that are actually....standards compliant and work with all major browsers.
Umm... your the only one using baby AOL-speak in this thread. So, how bout you get a life?
I can tell from your posts that you are a teeny-bopper. So, it is time to go home to mommy now little boy. It is past your bedtime. Were you hanging out with your "friends" all night trying to "score" a beer to two? I guess no adult like me "hooked" you up tonight? Awww, too bad. Better luck next time wittle boy.
Now go practice our AOL-speak somewhere else. I am sure all of your "friends" want to be impressed by all of your cool Internet "skilz".
I said there are a lot of good Christians out there. I didn't say Catholics. If you are a Catholic and consider that more important than being a Christian, well, the last thing you need to worry about is my "stealth bigotry". Seriously. If being a member of a "church" is more important to you than the religion you proclaim, then, IMO, you need to re-check your "religion".
I don't belong to any "denomination" for a reason. I don't want the crap that man introduced to "religion".
I could go on for pages about the problems of the Catholic "church", please don't ask me to.:-)
Did you go to the website of TFA? It doesn't sound like it. Go and read their site. While I, as a Christian, think they are off their rocker in this "effort", doesn't mean that they are a "bad" organization. From what I have _read_ (I know nothing about them besides their site), they sound like they really want to help the less fortunate.
However, I will agree with anyone that this current effort seems kinda stupid.
Oh, and please stop lumping all Christians into the same "bible-bashing-you-are-all-going-to-hell" pool. It makes you sound like an idiot. Seriously. How would I sound if I said all Muslims want to cut off your head? Most people would mark me as a troll.
There are a lot of Christians out there (just like a lot of Muslims) that don't follow the stupid dogma of the big "churches". Stop lumping us all together please.:-)
On a large code-base like the Macromedia suite, it would take at least a year to get really familiar with the code to make any major improvements. Last I checked, Adobe didn't introduce any major improvements to Macromedia.
So, uhhh.. there is no PWNED here.
Oh, and by the way, how old are you? I would guess by your usage of "PWNED" that you are between 14 and 19.
Come talk to me when you grow up and actually get some pubes.:-)
Well, I am a Christian and honestly, I have never heard of Ted Haggart. I just had to do a Google search on that name.
I agree with you that most people are good people. Religion or no religion. As a progrmmer, my last programming group had a Jew, two Christians, a Muslim, an Indian of unknown religion (too many gods to list), a die-hard atheist, and a moderate (I don't know and I don't care).
Oh, and sorry about the chicken-sex thing. I wasn't aware that/.ers change from chickens to ducks.:-)
You just named a bunch of messed of "Christians". I think anyone with some education can tell the difference.
Don't you?
Can you tell the difference between some Muslim like Osama bin Laden and a normal Muslims that doesn't call you an "infidel" and want to cut your head off?
Come on. You are an educated dude. Use some sense and don't lump all people into the same "group". There are a lot of good Christians out there. There are a lot of good Muslims out there. There are a lot of good Jews out there. There are lot of good atheists out there, etc.
Err... That is like saying all Muslims want to kill "infidels". It is just stupid. There are a lot of good Christian groups out there that are not about bashing-the-bible or telling everyone they are going to hell.
Most of the bad publicity for Christians comes from the Catholics. I as a Christian am very anti-Catholic. Just look at the history of the Catholic "church" for my proof. Murder. Rape. Molestation. Need I say more? Just do some Google searches or check Wikipedia on the ugly history of the Catholic "church".
Please stop lumping all Christians in with the crazy Catholic crap. Lumping all Christians together is the same as saying all Muslims love to cut off the heads of "infidels". As a good Christian friend to a Muslim, I can tell you that is not the case, at all.
The sad thing is this type of crap gets lumped in with "Christians".
There are wacky bible-bashing Christians out there just like there are crazy cut-your-head-off Muslims.
I am a Christian, but I am often very saddened by the state of Christianity because I read reports like this one. Most Christians in the USA are good, easy-goin people like me.
I personally don't care if you want to run around naked in your own house, pee on a dog and have sex with chickens. That is your problem, not mine. Though as a Christian I will pray for you and hope that you give up your chicken-sex. However, I won't be bashing you on the head telling you that you will go to h-e-double-hockey-sticks because you had chicken-sex. Heck, chicken-sex seems to be the best that most/.ers can get:-)
Seriously, most of this crazy "Christian" crap comes from the Catholics. Look at the history of the Catholic church. Murder. Rape. Molestation. Lies. No wonder a lot of non-Christians think all "Christians" are crazy.
The reason we are not "using it right" is because 99% of the issue we can fix ourselves. The other issues require the support because we usually need a custom patch (since it is closed source and we cannot fix it) or something to fix some weird issue(s). For example, we had big problems with Netegrity working with our corporate intranet setup with PeopleSoft. Netegrity was not forwarding things correctly through our server farm and SSL accelerator. After working with Netegrity, we got an update that fixed the issue with the binary only Apache module we had to use.
If it was Open Source, we would have been able to step-through the code in debug mode and fix it ourselves. But we couldn't since it was proprietary, closed source software. In my experiences as a programmer, that is where the enterprise support has come in handy. From an admin side, I am sure there are other places it comes in handy as well.
Uhh... it does a lot more than just email. While I am no fan of MS, they have built the best available corporate messaging system to handle scheduling, email, tasks, shared calendars, public this and public that. I would personally love to replace the Exchange/Outlook combo. However, there is really no other simple option for admins that would please the non-tech managers yet.
Huh? Have you used it? I have. The UI is not even close to the UI of MS Office on MS Windows. Just try it and you will see. I hate the UI for MS Office on Mac.
The cost of training is crap. Stick any user on a Mac or Linux desktop that is setup well and there won't be much need for training.
The big cost is all the custom software that was written with an MS-Only IDE, to MS-Only API's and specs. That is the real killer.
I am a senior programmer with more than a decade of experience. During that time about 90% of my work has been MS-only stuff.
I have written C code for Win32
I have written C code for Solaris
I have written C code for Linux
I have written C++ code for Win32
I have written C++ code for Solaris
I have written C++ code for Linux
I have written Java code for Win32/Solaris/Linux
I have written VB code for Win32
I have written C# code for Win32
The funny thing, all the code I have written for non-MS OS'es has been pretty portable. The MS software, well, that has been MS-Only. MS designed their whole software "ecosystem" to lock you in.
So the real cost of switching from MS is not in training, but in re-writing custom apps. Notice I didn't say _porting_. Most MS-Only apps don't port very well. MS made it this way for a reason, to lock-in customers. The more MS software your company uses, the more locked-in you are.
Huh? You are looking at buying ONE. Most corps won't be buying one desktop at a time. Damn, where I work we have 160,000+ employees. That would take a _long_ time.
Dell, HP and Sun have good deals for corporate purchases where you buy X amount of desktops. The larger the value of X, the greater the discount.
The wimpy specs of the Mac mini just don't compare for what a corporation can get at the same price from one of the big PC players.
Apple needs to want to enter the Enterprise market and bring their prices and most importantly support to that level. They cannot expect corporations to lower their expectations down to except what Apple is currently offering.
Enterprise support is called that for a reason. Have you ever worked for a large corp that pays for enterprise support? I have worked as a programmer for 3 fortune 500 companies. I work closely with our admins and Enterprise support means something. We can give a call about a failed NIC and get it by the end of the day or latest next morning. We have people from Sun, HP, Microsoft, Netegrity, etc that actually come to our location. Not some "consultant" that claims to know stuff, but the actual people from the companies we are paying for support.
I personally think "Enterprise support" is a little over rated and very over priced. However, no CIO/CTO is going to go with some small-town solution. Their butt is on the line. They want the assurance that there is support there when needed. From my experience, that support is hardly used at big corps. Most of us IT guys get the job done one-way-or-the-other. However, our CIO will still always budget for the annual support contracts, regardless of how little we used them.
Look at Red Hat. They make most of their money from support, not selling Linux. Any Linux admin can handle the support needs of Red Hat. Yet the top managers still pay for Red Hat support, just for a "security blanket".
Apple doesn't even come close to having an Enterprise support system setup. I don't think they want to. Until they do, they will just be a niche market.
MS Office for Mac sucks. It is _totally_ different and still is only available for PPC. That means it runs like poop. I tried the trial version and it really sucks and is far too slow. Oh, there is also no MS Outlook for Mac, which is the big MS Office app for corps that run MS Exchange.
At the fortune 500 I work for, MS Outlook is the most used MS Office app. Period. There is no support for that on the Mac. Personally I would love for our admins to get a clue and switch to a real IMAP server that is not MS Exchange so that our email client is not forced on us. Sadly, I don't get to make that call.
Photoshop? Huh, why do Mac-boys always try to throw that around? How many of the big corps (where MS makes their money) _need_ Photoshop? Probably close to none. The majority of image editing that employees at a big corp does could be handled by the Gimp, without question. Actually where I work, a lot of the programmers like me use Gimp and the graphics dudes don't use Photshop but Macromedia suite. For those circumstances that need Photoshop, well just give those employees an XP or Mac box and be done with it.
Linux can handle the majority of desktop, development and server needs of most big corps. The only problem is that most big corps have most of their eggs in the MS-Basket, so switching to Mac or Linux is a long shot.
What is wrong with the logic? I have been a programmer for more than a decade now. I have mostly used MS Windows, Linux and Solaris. I have never used a Mac until a few months ago when I "took the plunge". All the Mac fanatics claim how everything "just works". So I thought I would give it a go. Well, I am very disapointed about how everything doesn't "just work", especially wrt DRM content bought from Apple.
It seems the only way to make things with Apple "just work" is to keep buying every product they make. For example, if I want to watch the shows I paid for from iTMS, I have to give Apple a few hundred bucks more and buy either a video iPod or Apple TV. No thanks.
After spending a few hundred bucks on iTMS, I have come to the conclusion that I do not want to deal with DRM. Period. I will not give my money to a company that supports/enforces/encourages/ DRM. I haven't bought anything from Microsoft for at least 5 years or more now (the company I work for buys me stuff from MS like my MSDN account but that is not me).
The bottom line is that I just do not want to support DRM at all. I tried to be "legit" and buy DRM stuff. However, it is more trouble than it is worth to me.
Why is it stupid? I gave Apple thousands of dollars in the last 6 months. I am not happy with the limitations of there services. I will take my business elsewhere now. The only way to make a company change is to take money from them.
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I have been using /. for many years now (different UID's).
I remember "Overly Critical Guy" being a pro MS dude(always). Is this just some MS shill? I am not trolling, I am just wondering why "Overly Critical Guy" looks to have done a 180 on his stance on MS.
Oh, so I can use this "email service" from my Mac or Linux computer? No? Move along then.
P.S. How does a service go "alive" exactly? Did MS manage to build some Frankenstein service?
In constrast, OpenGL 2.x can be used on just about any OS. If NVidia and ATI/AMD update their hardware to support OpenGL 2.x (like they have for more recent cards), the software drivers for any OS will know how to take advantage of the features in OpenGL 2.x.
With proprietary junk like DX10, you get extreme limitations imposed by the "key holders". What MS says, goes WRT DirectX. Sadly, too many game companies bought into the DX bandwagon since they were generally making MS-Only games, they didn't care about an MS-Only gaming API.
I wish the game companies came together and really pushed OpenGL so that the games would not be locked down to MS-Only.
So MS using OpenAL should be applauded? How long until they "extend" it in a non-open manner? What about the rest of DX10? Is it open? Nope. So any DX10 games will still only work MS Windows. No Mac or Linux support.
Stop with the "MS is doing open stuff" until MS actually comes out with something that is open from end-to-end. Heck, IE supports open standards like HTML, CSS (to some extent), EMCA JavaScript, etc. However, it is the proprietary crap that MS throws on top that makes sites "IE-Only", like client-side VBVScript and the MS-Only conditional comments, etc.
I don't know why you were mod'ed "Offtopic". Some people need more brain cells. However, you are certainly allowed to have curved glass on a driver-side mirror. Did you ever see a fish-eye mirror? You can go into any car parts store and get a stick-on fish-eye. I don't think anyone would suggest that a fish-eye mirror is not curved. I don't know what the GP was talking about.
Heck, I drove a few bigger delivery trucks when I was going through college here in the USA. The trucks had a big rectangular flat-mirror and a big fish-eye mirror on both sides.
I haven't looked up the law, maybe it is illegal to only have a fish-eye, curved mirror on the driver side. However, they are certainly not illegal here in the USA as an adjunct mirror. I have one on my mini-van.
Have you ever used the web front-end to Exchange 2003 in a non-MS-only browser? I have. It sucks. Big time. It is really stupid IMO to pay for MS Exchange and try to make it an IMAP server. If you want to be MS-Only, and use only MS Exchange and only MS Outlook, then fine. MS Exchange is the package for you. However, trying to buy some MS "solution" and trying to make it standards compliant is just stupid. Microsoft doesn't play in the standards compliant field. They take a standard and "embrace and extend" and totally screw it up and try to make it proprietary and call it "IP". You can get better standards compliant IMAP servers that are Open Source. From there, you can plug in nice web-mail front-ends that are actually....standards compliant and work with all major browsers.
Umm... your the only one using baby AOL-speak in this thread. So, how bout you get a life?
I can tell from your posts that you are a teeny-bopper. So, it is time to go home to mommy now little boy. It is past your bedtime. Were you hanging out with your "friends" all night trying to "score" a beer to two? I guess no adult like me "hooked" you up tonight? Awww, too bad. Better luck next time wittle boy.
Now go practice our AOL-speak somewhere else. I am sure all of your "friends" want to be impressed by all of your cool Internet "skilz".
I said there are a lot of good Christians out there. I didn't say Catholics. If you are a Catholic and consider that more important than being a Christian, well, the last thing you need to worry about is my "stealth bigotry". Seriously. If being a member of a "church" is more important to you than the religion you proclaim, then, IMO, you need to re-check your "religion".
:-)
I don't belong to any "denomination" for a reason. I don't want the crap that man introduced to "religion".
I could go on for pages about the problems of the Catholic "church", please don't ask me to.
Did you go to the website of TFA? It doesn't sound like it. Go and read their site. While I, as a Christian, think they are off their rocker in this "effort", doesn't mean that they are a "bad" organization. From what I have _read_ (I know nothing about them besides their site), they sound like they really want to help the less fortunate.
:-)
However, I will agree with anyone that this current effort seems kinda stupid.
Oh, and please stop lumping all Christians into the same "bible-bashing-you-are-all-going-to-hell" pool. It makes you sound like an idiot. Seriously. How would I sound if I said all Muslims want to cut off your head? Most people would mark me as a troll.
There are a lot of Christians out there (just like a lot of Muslims) that don't follow the stupid dogma of the big "churches". Stop lumping us all together please.
Are you a programmer? I am.
:-)
On a large code-base like the Macromedia suite, it would take at least a year to get really familiar with the code to make any major improvements. Last I checked, Adobe didn't introduce any major improvements to Macromedia.
So, uhhh.. there is no PWNED here.
Oh, and by the way, how old are you? I would guess by your usage of "PWNED" that you are between 14 and 19.
Come talk to me when you grow up and actually get some pubes.
Well, I am a Christian and honestly, I have never heard of Ted Haggart. I just had to do a Google search on that name.
/.ers change from chickens to ducks. :-)
I agree with you that most people are good people. Religion or no religion. As a progrmmer, my last programming group had a Jew, two Christians, a Muslim, an Indian of unknown religion (too many gods to list), a die-hard atheist, and a moderate (I don't know and I don't care).
Oh, and sorry about the chicken-sex thing. I wasn't aware that
You just named a bunch of messed of "Christians". I think anyone with some education can tell the difference.
Don't you?
Can you tell the difference between some Muslim like Osama bin Laden and a normal Muslims that doesn't call you an "infidel" and want to cut your head off?
Come on. You are an educated dude. Use some sense and don't lump all people into the same "group". There are a lot of good Christians out there. There are a lot of good Muslims out there. There are a lot of good Jews out there. There are lot of good atheists out there, etc.
Err... That is like saying all Muslims want to kill "infidels". It is just stupid. There are a lot of good Christian groups out there that are not about bashing-the-bible or telling everyone they are going to hell.
Most of the bad publicity for Christians comes from the Catholics. I as a Christian am very anti-Catholic. Just look at the history of the Catholic "church" for my proof. Murder. Rape. Molestation. Need I say more? Just do some Google searches or check Wikipedia on the ugly history of the Catholic "church".
Please stop lumping all Christians in with the crazy Catholic crap. Lumping all Christians together is the same as saying all Muslims love to cut off the heads of "infidels". As a good Christian friend to a Muslim, I can tell you that is not the case, at all.
The sad thing is this type of crap gets lumped in with "Christians".
/.ers can get :-)
There are wacky bible-bashing Christians out there just like there are crazy cut-your-head-off Muslims.
I am a Christian, but I am often very saddened by the state of Christianity because I read reports like this one. Most Christians in the USA are good, easy-goin people like me.
I personally don't care if you want to run around naked in your own house, pee on a dog and have sex with chickens. That is your problem, not mine. Though as a Christian I will pray for you and hope that you give up your chicken-sex. However, I won't be bashing you on the head telling you that you will go to h-e-double-hockey-sticks because you had chicken-sex. Heck, chicken-sex seems to be the best that most
Seriously, most of this crazy "Christian" crap comes from the Catholics. Look at the history of the Catholic church. Murder. Rape. Molestation. Lies. No wonder a lot of non-Christians think all "Christians" are crazy.
The reason we are not "using it right" is because 99% of the issue we can fix ourselves. The other issues require the support because we usually need a custom patch (since it is closed source and we cannot fix it) or something to fix some weird issue(s). For example, we had big problems with Netegrity working with our corporate intranet setup with PeopleSoft. Netegrity was not forwarding things correctly through our server farm and SSL accelerator. After working with Netegrity, we got an update that fixed the issue with the binary only Apache module we had to use.
If it was Open Source, we would have been able to step-through the code in debug mode and fix it ourselves. But we couldn't since it was proprietary, closed source software. In my experiences as a programmer, that is where the enterprise support has come in handy. From an admin side, I am sure there are other places it comes in handy as well.
Uhh... it does a lot more than just email. While I am no fan of MS, they have built the best available corporate messaging system to handle scheduling, email, tasks, shared calendars, public this and public that. I would personally love to replace the Exchange/Outlook combo. However, there is really no other simple option for admins that would please the non-tech managers yet.
Huh? Have you used it? I have. The UI is not even close to the UI of MS Office on MS Windows. Just try it and you will see. I hate the UI for MS Office on Mac.
The cost of training is crap. Stick any user on a Mac or Linux desktop that is setup well and there won't be much need for training.
The big cost is all the custom software that was written with an MS-Only IDE, to MS-Only API's and specs. That is the real killer.
I am a senior programmer with more than a decade of experience. During that time about 90% of my work has been MS-only stuff.
I have written C code for Win32
I have written C code for Solaris
I have written C code for Linux
I have written C++ code for Win32
I have written C++ code for Solaris
I have written C++ code for Linux
I have written Java code for Win32/Solaris/Linux
I have written VB code for Win32
I have written C# code for Win32
The funny thing, all the code I have written for non-MS OS'es has been pretty portable. The MS software, well, that has been MS-Only. MS designed their whole software "ecosystem" to lock you in.
So the real cost of switching from MS is not in training, but in re-writing custom apps. Notice I didn't say _porting_. Most MS-Only apps don't port very well. MS made it this way for a reason, to lock-in customers. The more MS software your company uses, the more locked-in you are.
Huh? You are looking at buying ONE. Most corps won't be buying one desktop at a time. Damn, where I work we have 160,000+ employees. That would take a _long_ time.
Dell, HP and Sun have good deals for corporate purchases where you buy X amount of desktops. The larger the value of X, the greater the discount.
The wimpy specs of the Mac mini just don't compare for what a corporation can get at the same price from one of the big PC players.
Apple needs to want to enter the Enterprise market and bring their prices and most importantly support to that level. They cannot expect corporations to lower their expectations down to except what Apple is currently offering.
Umm, no I personally do not use Macromedia, at all. I don't like it.
Ummm, Adobe didn't program Macromedia, they bought it. So "umm", no, no one is "Pwned".
Adobe didn't like the strong competition from Macromedia, so they "umm" bought it.
Grow up dude.
Pwned.
Enterprise support is called that for a reason. Have you ever worked for a large corp that pays for enterprise support? I have worked as a programmer for 3 fortune 500 companies. I work closely with our admins and Enterprise support means something. We can give a call about a failed NIC and get it by the end of the day or latest next morning. We have people from Sun, HP, Microsoft, Netegrity, etc that actually come to our location. Not some "consultant" that claims to know stuff, but the actual people from the companies we are paying for support.
I personally think "Enterprise support" is a little over rated and very over priced. However, no CIO/CTO is going to go with some small-town solution. Their butt is on the line. They want the assurance that there is support there when needed. From my experience, that support is hardly used at big corps. Most of us IT guys get the job done one-way-or-the-other. However, our CIO will still always budget for the annual support contracts, regardless of how little we used them.
Look at Red Hat. They make most of their money from support, not selling Linux. Any Linux admin can handle the support needs of Red Hat. Yet the top managers still pay for Red Hat support, just for a "security blanket".
Apple doesn't even come close to having an Enterprise support system setup. I don't think they want to. Until they do, they will just be a niche market.
MS Office for Mac sucks. It is _totally_ different and still is only available for PPC. That means it runs like poop. I tried the trial version and it really sucks and is far too slow. Oh, there is also no MS Outlook for Mac, which is the big MS Office app for corps that run MS Exchange.
At the fortune 500 I work for, MS Outlook is the most used MS Office app. Period. There is no support for that on the Mac. Personally I would love for our admins to get a clue and switch to a real IMAP server that is not MS Exchange so that our email client is not forced on us. Sadly, I don't get to make that call.
Photoshop? Huh, why do Mac-boys always try to throw that around? How many of the big corps (where MS makes their money) _need_ Photoshop? Probably close to none. The majority of image editing that employees at a big corp does could be handled by the Gimp, without question. Actually where I work, a lot of the programmers like me use Gimp and the graphics dudes don't use Photshop but Macromedia suite. For those circumstances that need Photoshop, well just give those employees an XP or Mac box and be done with it.
Linux can handle the majority of desktop, development and server needs of most big corps. The only problem is that most big corps have most of their eggs in the MS-Basket, so switching to Mac or Linux is a long shot.
What is wrong with the logic? I have been a programmer for more than a decade now. I have mostly used MS Windows, Linux and Solaris. I have never used a Mac until a few months ago when I "took the plunge". All the Mac fanatics claim how everything "just works". So I thought I would give it a go. Well, I am very disapointed about how everything doesn't "just work", especially wrt DRM content bought from Apple.
It seems the only way to make things with Apple "just work" is to keep buying every product they make. For example, if I want to watch the shows I paid for from iTMS, I have to give Apple a few hundred bucks more and buy either a video iPod or Apple TV. No thanks.
After spending a few hundred bucks on iTMS, I have come to the conclusion that I do not want to deal with DRM. Period. I will not give my money to a company that supports/enforces/encourages/ DRM. I haven't bought anything from Microsoft for at least 5 years or more now (the company I work for buys me stuff from MS like my MSDN account but that is not me).
The bottom line is that I just do not want to support DRM at all. I tried to be "legit" and buy DRM stuff. However, it is more trouble than it is worth to me.
Why is it stupid? I gave Apple thousands of dollars in the last 6 months. I am not happy with the limitations of there services. I will take my business elsewhere now. The only way to make a company change is to take money from them.