Why Microsoft Is Beating Apple At Its Own Game

ttom writes "OSWeekly.com looks at Microsoft's promotional strategy and concludes that Microsoft is beating Apple at its own game." From the article: "Apple is to blame for this, at least to some extent. They just had to go and release Boot Camp, didn't they? By the way, please don't take my sarcastic tone as an expression of my dissatisfaction for the product. I think it's great, and I really never expected to see something like Boot Camp come out of the Apple Camp. I know that users have bombarded them with requests for officially allowing Windows usage on a Mac, and the fact that they yielded to these requests is interesting because they've emphasized the OS X and Windows experiences as being completely separate for quite some time."

You heard it there first.

[Spazntwich]

"Apple to drop ad campaign because editor of internet site declares it unsuccessful."

MOD PARENT UP!

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Apple has included...in their contracts...must respect human rights...is simply a PR strategy for the Apple-hostile media.

Anyone who can use the phrase "Apple-hostile media" in the middle of a serious rant deserves a +5 funny!

Moving Goalposts

[Swift2001]

I love it how I used to hear nothing but, "you can't run Windows on it except that crappy VirtualPC emulator at 2 mph, and it costs a huge amount more, and OS 9 is extremely limited and out of date."

Now, OS X is decidedly not out of date. You can run Windows apps, in a variety of ways. (I just installed Codeweaver's WINE thing on my Mac mini, and it runs older Windows software like a charm.) You can run Ubuntu on it, live or installed, making it a triple-booting machine. VMWare is on its way. AND it's very low in price, comparable in many niches, in fact, to Dell, the low-price leader. So now what? Now it's time to whine that they won't release OS X to play on Windows machines. That they're lowering quality by lowering price. Yada, yada.

You know, when MS-DOS was king, they used to complain that GUIs were for dummies. That it stole processor cycles and ran too slow. Until MS adopted a workable GUI, then GUIs were just great!

I keep on trying to figure out the psychology of the Windows chauvinists, and I can never figure it out. (Windows, Mac, Linux, Sun -- am I forgetting anybody? -- they all have their good points. I'd like best that you could run anything anywhere, but first the monopolist here would have to stop friggin' around with web and video standards, and the business community, which made Windows King in the first place, would have to get a brain implant.)

Re:Summary headline is incorrect.

[Moofie]

And here, I was never expecting the art of the stupid car analogy to be perfected.

I bask in the magnificence of your 45mph linux computer. I wish I was as cool as you.