“You won’t have to worry about Vista if you buy one of Apple Computer’s Macintosh computers, which don’t run Windows,” Mossberg had written. “Every mainstream consumer doing typical tasks should consider the Mac. Its operating system, called Tiger [at that time, the most-current Mac OS X -- Ed.], is better and more secure than Windows XP, and already contains most of the key features promised for Vista.”
Warrier added his own comment. “A premium experience as defined by Walt = Apple. This is why we need to address [the column].”
That got an almost-immediate rise out of Russell, who acknowledged that Microsoft had not done its job in promoting Windows Vista. “My takeaway from Walt’s article is that we have failed to communicate Vista’s value,” Russell said in an e-mail reply sent just 20 minutes after Warrier fired off his.
Russell went on to defend Vista, specifically its ability to “run on a very wide-ranging set of systems from the minimally capable to the incredibly capable,” he said. “Apple doesn’t do that.”
What we have here is a failure to communicate. No dumbass, what we have here is a sucky OS.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Really.
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It’s the professional equivalent of “love me, love my dog” and it has become a reality in US hiring scenarios. Some job applicants in the US are specifically asking to be able to use their favored computer technology and favored mobile phone in the jobs they are applying for. And they may even want to supply their own devices so that their personal world and professional world is integrated in the way that they want it.
Of course it’s Apple technology that’s the driver of this, because the Mac really is more productive than the PC, no matter whether you compare it with Windows XP or Windows Vista. Using either Parallels or VMware it can virtualize a Windows environment, so there’s no technical gotcha that prevents the use of a Mac. And when it comes to mobile phones, most organizations don’t have good integration to mobiles, so in that case it’s really a matter of sorting out the billing issues.
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