Seattle PI on Microsoft’s greatest internal email hits. One of my favorite quoutes is Jim Allchin’s 2004 comment:
I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.
More funny emails like this at Valleywag:
No one really believed we would ever ship[Vista].
ice crums
geekery 2.0
apple
Microsoft’s Greatest Hits: Top 5 internal e-mails
Blogshphere Bashers
A blogger named M.B. Darden wrote an article about his first experience at an Apple Store. The interesting thing is his follow up article where he comments on people’s comments(insults). I don’t advocate this kind of behavior at all, but I have to hand it to this really weird anonymous coward’s comment:
your light gray font [...]
New MacBook and MacBook Pros: No exterior change!
Apple today released an update for their Macbooks and MacBook Pro laptops. The MBP now include MultiTouch trackpads and a very nice set of hardware upgrades like 200 GB standard HD.
My only concern is the MacBook Pro’s casing which hasn’t changed much since the G4 PowerBook. It sucks that I have owned three Apple laptops [...]
Dell purchasing experience….not quite like Macs
Here is what you get for trying to buy a Dell:
(The full 6 min version…well worth it)
According to comments, this happened after Dell slashed call center pay rates and cancelled employee stock option plans.
The Mac experience starts at the store, phone call or website. And that’s what makes a Mac a Mac.
Mac Pride
I just got a call from a family member that recently switched to a Mac. They took over 200 pictures yesterday and were resizing them to upload them to facebook. The managed to do 20 pictures in a couple of hours using Photoshop.
They called me because of some trouble they were having uploading pics [...]
Get a Mac to go with that digital picture frame you got for Valentines Day
Apparently they have discovered trojans in picture frames coming from China. Who buys these things anyway?
John Gruber comments on article by Deborah Gage in the San Francisco Chronicle:
I love how it’s called a “computer virus”, not a “Windows virus”, but the advice they offer is to test the thing on a Mac or Linux [...]
Apple Ditching Pro Apps? NOT!
After Apple decided to ditch their booth at NAB, CrunchGear rumored that Apple was getting out of their Pro App business (Final Cut, Logic…etc) but after today’s Aperture 2 release I think we can call it quits on the stupid unfundamented rumor.
What menu option do I choose?
One of the only good features available from the highly critized Leopard help. Menu bar option search assistant.
(Via TUAW.)
MacHeads: The movie
Macs are more than computers: they are a community by people that chose to be different.
Count me in to see that movie.
Macheads - the movie (trailer)Uploaded by brunogarattoni
P.S. Mac enthusiasts are NOT comparable to Trekkies!
(Via TUAW.)
Watch the Macwold keynote like you were there
I have to be out of the office all day tomorrow, and won’t be able to watch the live feeds for the keynote. So I decided that I would wait till night and watch it without reading the news…just like being live (more like TiVo). I couldn’t figure out a way to actually [...]