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I'd absolutely agree with rantfoil and damon, but here's another reason why (and I own and love a Mac, for the record): Fanboys. I'm not kidding. Microsoft ca

by markbao 19y ago

I'd absolutely agree with rantfoil and damon, but here's another reason why (and I own and love a Mac, for the record): Fanboys. I'm not kidding. Microsoft can innovate well (and they have in the past) and they'll always have an evil stigma around them. Apple, whatever they do, mostly has an "everything Apple does is awesome and good" while glossing over the things Apple has done wrong. Granted, Apple's done some great stuff. But I'll say this: when Apple releases a Tablet PC, fanboys will praise it even though if it is with similar functionality to Microsoft's Tablet PC, and will cause the inertia to start and people start pointing out the obscure flaws in Microsoft's Tablet PC and talk about how amazing Apple's is. I'm being absolutely serious here. It's something that's akin to the Google/Yahoo! competition also. Fanboys and the people that they influence have a great effect on a company's desire to innovate.

ardit33 19y ago
No they can't. I just bought a Microsoft Live camera, and I had to install 400mb worth of stuff to get it work, on a pretty patched up XP, and even a Vista!! (which came out a year ago). It should be able to just plug that thing and get going. Ah, and the button on top of it, works of course, only with MSN. Oh, and it wont even work on my sister's computer, as she needs to install SP2. MS = crap And let's not even mention what sorry piece of OS Vista is. It is god aweful, and I regeret not wiping it out from my parent's computer.
tx 19y ago
Good companies can create fanboys and not-so-good can lose them seemingly overnight. Believe it or not, there were quite a few Microsoft fanboys just 10 years ago, I was one of them: it was a great place to work in early 90s and they kicked everyone's ass on engineering battleground: Netscape, Borland and IBM can whine all they want, but the technology behind NN4, Borland compilers and OS/2 couldn't handle Microsoft's will to compete. ... while Apple was considered to be technically inferior (and it was) overpriced junk for seniors. When you turn these tables around, that's called innovation: not just 100% technology, but design and marketing as well.

by markbao 19y ago

ardit33 19y ago

No they can't. I just bought a Microsoft Live camera, and I had to install 400mb worth of stuff to get it work, on a pretty patched up XP, and even a Vista!! (which came out a year ago). It should be able to just plug that thing and get going. Ah, and the button on top of it, works of course, only with MSN. Oh, and it wont even work on my sister's computer, as she needs to install SP2. MS = crap And let's not even mention what sorry piece of OS Vista is. It is god aweful, and I regeret not wiping it out from my parent's computer.

tx 19y ago

Good companies can create fanboys and not-so-good can lose them seemingly overnight. Believe it or not, there were quite a few Microsoft fanboys just 10 years ago, I was one of them: it was a great place to work in early 90s and they kicked everyone's ass on engineering battleground: Netscape, Borland and IBM can whine all they want, but the technology behind NN4, Borland compilers and OS/2 couldn't handle Microsoft's will to compete. ... while Apple was considered to be technically inferior (and it was) overpriced junk for seniors. When you turn these tables around, that's called innovation: not just 100% technology, but design and marketing as well.