MetaFilter posts tagged with Mac and microsoft

Sienfeld wants you to buy Vista, Shatner wants you to buy a Vic 20

Artw — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:07:03 -0800

Celebrity computer endorsements throughout the ages.

Don't speak / I know just what you're saying

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:15:57 -0800

Speak n Spell your way into remote control of a Vista box.

A photo tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab

nakedcodemonkey — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:10:33 -0800

Welcome to Microsoft's Mac Lab.

Jobs & Gates to Tie The Knot. (Sort of.)

grabbingsand — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:44:48 -0800

Dual Boot, Officially. Now that the contest is over, it could be time for both sides of the ~~Cola~~ OS War to put aside their differences and shake hands ... though not without a little good-natured snark: "Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries." Oooooh ... burn.

Can you spare a dollar or two billion for the lesser off?

Mijo Bijo — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:57:43 -0800

Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? Who is changing the world more for the better? Some people believe Bill Gates and Microsoft are the Spawn of Satan, while others praise him for his philanthropy. [subs. req'd] Steve Jobs has more buzz on the internets than Bill Gates and a near religious following for his products with Apple. One might not give like the other, but one definitely is much more Zen-like.

Someone is mad that paid too much for their MCSE

StormBear — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:30:03 -0800

The clueless reviews the Mac Mini His chief gripes are "The Mini boots up into a stripped-down operating system which Apple calls OS X, similar to the stripped-down WindowsCE OS found on many handhelds." and "No serial ports, no way to connect a printer, no PS/2 ports, no floppy drive, no 5.25" bays." Let the hate mail campaign begin!

Less verdant in the south..?

i_cola — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 03:58:31 -0800

No Microsoft web fonts for Mac OS? With the passing of Internet Explorer for Mac OS it seems that web favourites such as Verdana & Georgia may no longer be available without installing Microsoft software. More discussion here. [via Typographica]

WaSP Calls for MS to Fix Standards Bugs in Discontinued IE

setmajer — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 06:03:47 -0800

IE in bug fix mode? Then fix the bugs! As was mentioned here before, MS is discontinuing the free version of IE for Mac, and offering it only as part of the MSN service instead. They also appear to be doing the same with IE for Windows. The Web Standards Project is demanding that they include standards bugs in the list they are going to fix, because MS has always advertised IE as standards-compliant.

Yet another reason to buy a mac

jonson — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:15:21 -0800

Microsoft to discontinue development of IE for the Mac... Surprisingly this apparently isn't being done because of the low market share for Macintosh, but rather as a side effect of the increasing integration (whether real or alleged) between IE and the Operating System, which on the Mac is closed, so MS can cease development as support for their claims of mandatory integration between browser & OS. I await the next step, mandatory integration between email & OS? IM? Media tools? Net access?

donkeyschlong — Mon, 08 Apr 2002 08:53:46 -0800

Hell freezes over. MSN coming to the Mac this summer.

apollonia6 — Sun, 03 Mar 2002 10:40:54 -0800

PC users are eeeevil! Kind of amusing story from Wired about how an observant viewer of 24 noticed that the bad guys use PCs, while the good guys use Macs.

Brilliantcrank — Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:10:01 -0800

MacOS X comes of age. Microsoft has just announced that Microsoft Office will be released for the new Apple OS in the fall. "Analysts had warned that without a version of Office, or similar productivity suite, running natively under Mac OS X, Apple would face problems getting businesses to switch to the new operating system. "

faisal — Fri, 12 May 2000 13:02:09 -0800

Macintouch is reporting that Microsoft has disbanded the IE for Mac team and is discontinuing development of IE for Mac. So much for a 5 year commitment....

geoff — Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:38:21 -0800

The IE 5 for Mac cartoons actually showcase some of the better flash animation I've seen on the web. Imagine that, a fun Microsoft PR site. If you're in hell right now, I'd unpack that snow shovel.