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

[Mitch Stone]

This echoes my suspicions. If Microsoft were a genuine business partner to 
Apple (which of course they are not to Apple or anyone else), they would 
offering some sort of public recognition and support for the difficulty 
and importance of what Apple is attempting to accomplish in the OSX 
transition. At least they would not be criticizing so them like an 
impatient, disapproving parent. Microsoft is never going to admit that the 
real source of their disapproval is, most likely, Apple's current ad 
campaign.

On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 01:35 PM, Paul Rickard wrote:

> ========== 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.
>
>

   Mitch Stone