Elfwine opened this issue on Jan 09, 2007 ยท 31 posts
skeetshooter posted Wed, 10 January 2007 at 2:55 PM
Attached Link: Apple "Surgery" Mac-PC Visa Jab Ad
All of this is yet another reason for not dealing with Microsoft if you don't have to. Mac-ers have been using a Vista-like OS (and a superior one at that) for over a year, and will take yet another painless leap ahead with the introduction of OS 10.5 Leopard later this Spring. Certainly Mac Poser users haven't had much reason to be smug over the past few years (until Poser 7), but we can always count on Microsoft to do its part by overreaching at every opportunity. I moved my small company from PC to Mac about four years ago, with a lot of griping from my employees, especially about cross-platform compatibility of Excel and Powerpoint documents (which hasn't quite gone away), but we haven't been hit by a virus, major server failure or external server intrusion since, and our per-seat system and maintenance costs are notably lower with much higher up-time percentages. Every time I read about Microsoft's new, tightened grip on its corporate users and stories like this thread, I give thanks all the more. If you haven't seen the latest Apple ad, which takes a jab at Vista (see "Surgery"), it's one of the better ones: