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Re: Resistance is (NOT) futile!
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Posted by oldsaab (more from oldsaab) on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:57:26 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Resistance is (NOT) futile!, xhawksaab, Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:45:37
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I knew this would be coming... oops Unix, care to share which version, I mean the core code? Doesn't matter, the point was Apple moved on to another core product (gee, just like IBM, HP, SGI, and *all* of the rest have done). Running MS Office? You got me, Apple (or someone on the Apple side of things) wrote an emulator to allow MS apps to run on Apple. MS didn't write it. MS did write two versions a 2002 and a 2008 release, maybe more not sure, I am *sure* that keeping two versions of the code with two code trees is *not* what MS wants to do, cost and diverging features are not usually worth it. Apple knows that the defacto standard in general office applications is Microsoft Office. It makes sense that Apple plays nice with MS, and vice versa, for Apple to be able to be more funcional (meaning do what they do better than everyone else *and* the can run the MS Office Suite too. Means a single system vs two on a single desk), it *also* makes sense that MS places nice with Apple to keep our of the courts. I'm not an Apple guy, but will the MS office Windows version run under the 10X emulator? If it does then someone on the Apple side of the table as agreed that MS (and the Windows ISV types) have some software that Apple users would like to run.

If so, then someone (maybe not Apple) saw fit to support it from that end, and not MS seeing an opportunity, and as to who it helped... I'm still leaning to it helps Apple more, 2 reasons it allows them to run MS applications that users want, and it helps introduce Windows users to the Mac interface. The Intel processor vs the Power PC? Yes, I guess lack of sales for that processor, and subsequent IBM discontinuing it did give them a reason to move on down the road to the most widely used cpu. You do know that there are several other Billion Dollar plus companies that are doing something similar, use industry standard hardware (Intel and now or AMD, Intel chip sets, mother boards, PCI and new card slots with matching cards, and then write their application to run on some small operating system). Think NETAPP as one.


If you are truely having that much trouble with your system crashing... you should may have another underlying problem. Remember that Windows allows several orders of magnitude "plug and pray" products that historically Apple has avoided. To there credit this, I'm sure, has helped prevent poorly written drivers and don't play nicely. While I have been running windows for some time, I completely agree that it has it's problems. However, with a couple of exceptions (hey I admit problems - no one is paying me say anything or take the time to type this... LOL) I just haven't seen volume of issues that gets press. It would be interesting to see how many computers that are current in release, patches, and using a quality manufactures package (Dell, HP, Gateway, or the like) and *NOT* PCs R US, (purchase a mother board, memory, case, pick a drive interface, drives, video card.... you get my drift) and see which group is having issues. What I'm saying is how many systems out there using quality configurations are *not* having issues? You and I both know that people rarly speak up unless it's to complain. (just look at the saabnet board. "I have a problem" is the norm, and not "I love this car and very few problems".) Again, I'm not an Apple guy, but can you build your system from similar menu of stuff from Fry's Compu USA or another reseller, or are the Apple systems more bounded in configuration? I use them as tools, as noted before, and tend to build a configuration that works and use it. I have (and the limits are OS minimum requirements driven) Win98 2nd edition, Win2k Pro, Win XP home, Win XP pro and NAS devices too and the *ALL* are networked together and share files too. Crashes, rebuilds, data lose? Sorry just don't have thoese problems. Also have Dell laptops, wife takes one to work and plugs into that system via a docking station with 100bT with about 8 systems, shuts down and brings home does the *wireless* thing at home cable modem to the internet via Linksys router, shares the printers at home that are running on DLink printer server I've used for several years. No issues. I have an "old" Dell laptop a D600, and use the hibernate function, just close the lid when done, open lid and push power button and everything is reloaded to memory.. Dells are running XP, and I have a windows smart phone with wifi and it works fine too (meaning getting online via wifi at home).

So, if I miss spoke, or wasn't completely accurate on my information about the orgins of something in Apple land, sorry about that. My original point was, and still is, Steve Jobs or his marking guy wanted to control everything just a bit too tightly in the beginning and it allowed others to move their cheese. Would I have done things differently? Well give that hindsight is usualy 20-20, maybe. Would I have done as well as the? Most likely not...

I read something recently, off topic but not completely, that the Chinese said that the United States continue to embargo high technology to China because we were concerned that they would clone the technoloy, basically steal it and use it to make money. They said yes we will, but it doesn't really matter that you with hold it because 1st we will get the tecnology from someone else and *they* will get the money for selling to us and 2nd, the technology will change in 2-5 years such that the items (they stole...) will be yesterday's technology and superceded by the next big thing... Interesting way of looking at things...
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