[Am-info] Jobs Touts OS, Unveils New IPod

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.07.18 04:31 PM, Fred A. Miller typed: ============

>Earlier this week, tensions arose between Apple and Microsoft as 
>word started leaking out of Redmond, Wash., that Microsoft's 
>commitment to write software for the Mac might be waning, thanks 
>in part to slow adoption of the new Unix-based Apple operating 
>system, OS X. Microsoft is the top outside supplier of software 
>for Apple computers.

   This is an excuse Microsoft uses to defend its decision to just end 
Mac software development. They certainly make a profit from the Mac 
Business Unit and OS X is being adopted by the installed base a lot 
faster than Windows 2000 and XP have been (percentage-wise anyway). 
Purely FUD and an attempt to save face when they pull out of the Mac 
software market entirely. Something's definitely going to change this 
fall when that 5 year agreement ends.


======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
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  "Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system. I guess I
   would be nervous if my system was built on their technology, too."
       -Sun Microsystems President Scott McNealy