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Microsoft Launches Anti-Mac Site
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Those Top 10 Reasons are a complete joke. "Ease of hooking up to a Network!" "Easily create & share movies!" and "Quickly find what you're looking for!"
I spent over an hour trying to get a brand-new PC to recognize my network - the Mac just got it. The "create movies" software that isn't bloatware demos can't put a patch to iMovie/DVD, "manage devices more easily" somehow doesn't instill confidence given it took :45 of fiddling for my Dell to recognize a Logitech mouse, and the Mac just picked it right up.
Crap like that somehow gets under my skin. The good news is this won't make much difference to Microsoft losing market share to Macintosh. The company still thinks they can just throw money at a problem.
I never had a glitch either. I went from daily struggles on Windows to simply knowing how to use a Mac seamlessly.
EDIT: I love this:
...you mean for all that bragging about technical prowess they can't detect that I'm using OS X?
I spent over an hour trying to get a brand-new PC to recognize my network - the Mac just got it. The "create movies" software that isn't bloatware demos can't put a patch to iMovie/DVD, "manage devices more easily" somehow doesn't instill confidence given it took :45 of fiddling for my Dell to recognize a Logitech mouse, and the Mac just picked it right up.
Crap like that somehow gets under my skin. The good news is this won't make much difference to Microsoft losing market share to Macintosh. The company still thinks they can just throw money at a problem.
I never had a glitch either. I went from daily struggles on Windows to simply knowing how to use a Mac seamlessly.
EDIT: I love this:
...you mean for all that bragging about technical prowess they can't detect that I'm using OS X?
The only thing that I like about PCs is that you can get them with a built in Blu-Ray player. That's about it.
I think their target audience has no clue what browser they're using anyways. Most likely, they're using Internet Explorer to view the page.
An other way to look at it is that MFST believes that sane people still use IE nowadays
Still the bottom line is that you'll be choosing between windows and osx. Windows 7 is definitely an improvement not only over Vista, but also over XP. It is not an improvement over OSX, even with the added eye candy MS added.
I use windows at work, and have a win7 install for work related stuff. I much prefer how OSX operates, its much more consistent and seamless. Lack of malware is a huge plus and the general interactions is superior.
With that said, its all personal preference and MS is trying to keep the undecided from checking out apple, since apple's market share has been increasing.
I use windows at work, and have a win7 install for work related stuff. I much prefer how OSX operates, its much more consistent and seamless. Lack of malware is a huge plus and the general interactions is superior.
With that said, its all personal preference and MS is trying to keep the undecided from checking out apple, since apple's market share has been increasing.
It is different, because the Mac vs. PC adds were pretty darn accurate. And when they were at their peak, I was a diehard PC guy and didn't own a single Apple device. And even I knew they were totally on point.
This Microsoft thing is SUCH a reach. Especially the repeated theme of trying to scare people out of trying Mac because it's "different". lame. I got my first Mac in April, and before that I barely touched it. It took me about a day or two before I was flying along and also convinced I'd never drop money on a PC again.