Comments on: Do Microsoft Employees Use (and Love) Mac OS X?

By: 50 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple’s Mac OS X ~ Chris Pirillo

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:01:20 +0000

[...] I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Windows users need Apple’s software more than Mac users need Microsoft’s. That’s just a cold, hard fact. And given my severe disappointment with just about everything in Mac Office 2008, I’m even further driven away from Microsoft’s desktop software.  [...]

By: 50 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple�s Mac OS X

50 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple�s Mac OS X — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:16:57 +0000

By: 50 reasons to switch to Mac, from Pirillo, a former Windows fan. « Zayne Humphrey’s Blog.

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:34:00 +0000

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Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:06:22 +0000

[...] bedenker van het Linux systeem, is eveneens aan de Mac. En zelfs op het Microsoft kantoor is de Mac hot.Apple blijft snoepen aan het OS-marktaandeel van Microsoft. Het heeft geen fanboys meer nodig om [...]

By: Switching to Mac » Mac vs PC » Mac vs PC - Who Needs Who the Most?

Switching to Mac » Mac vs PC » Mac vs PC - Who Needs Who the Most? — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:24:00 +0000

[...] came across an interesting perspective on Mac vs PC and who really needs who the most? The Author claims that Windows users need [...]

By: Joseph Crawford » Blog Archive » 50 Reasons to switch to Mac by Chris Pirillo

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:20:34 +0000

[...] am glad to see that Chris made the switch and I hope he loves his Mac Pro as much as I do mine. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Windows users need Apple’s software more than Mac users need [...]

By: e

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:08:09 +0000

I was an intern at Microsoft last summer. There were plenty of Linux/Mac users

By: Benjamin Rossington

Benjamin Rossington — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:19:57 +0000

So, what is stopping someone running Windows from running a native OS X app?

I mean, I hear about people running M$ on Mac all the time… even seen a vid of someone with M$ in a window running on their Mac Pro.

So, why isn’t the reverse happening? I would love to run a few Mac apps in a window on Windows.

I’ve tried playing with VMWare on XP… trying to get a working Mac install on it…

I don’t really like having to resort to something illegal to just ‘try’ something out- I’m not getting very far on this front since I won’t resort to warez (I’ve bought a new copy of Leopard just for this endeavor).

Methinks Mac needs to start using an identifiable keycode system, imprinted with the installed system specs… so people like me can simulate the stupid chip legally (or whatever the actual piece of software is stored in/on). Hell, charge me another $20 or something if need-be.

Damn, I’ld be happy as hell if Darwin was updated to run more current Mac sw… or was at least a close enough simulation so students could use it to actually learn Mac software properly, and cheaply. I long to delve into the workings of OS X…

On a side note; I *have* seen OS X under VMWare on XP in the wild. It lacked the VMTools, but otherwise seemed pretty darn cool. There were clear video issues, but appeared otherwise to be acceptable. Unfortunately, it was a fellow student who resorted to unauthorized ‘patches’ to make it work. I want a legal, legitimate install of OS X on my machine(s) that can surf the web and update properly.

By: Marcio

Marcio — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:03:51 +0000

Almost all Apple Software to Windows crash or doesn’t work well…
My QuickTime always crash Firefox.
iTunes crash sometimes…

By: michaelper22

michaelper22 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:08:46 +0000

Purley IMO, iTunes sucks at everything except manging content for iPods and downloading podcasts for listening on computers or iPods. Also, the font smoothing in Safari for Windows looks horrible, and Opera KOs in the number of features, on both OS X and Windows.

Honestly, I love OS X. It’s shiny n the right places (a bit less glittery than Vista, ie. no Aero Glass and Flip 3D), and waaaay more practically designed than Vista.

I long for a Mac more and more every day, thanks in part to programs like CamTwist, GarageBand and iGTD, none of which have Windows counterparts that are equivalently priced and the same featureset for the price. Each app in iLIfe could cost $30 or more each on its own from a third party, yet Apple bundles five awesome programs for just eighty smackers.

You, Daniel Brusilovksy and plenty of others get me more interested day after day.

By: TonyB

TonyB — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:25:29 +0000

I agree with all of your points. The one thing about iTunes, though, is the seamless experience you have using it with an iPod or iPhone. While it’s definitely a closed system, at least it’s a well thought out one.

By: Daniel Schildt

Daniel Schildt — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:35:48 +0000

Idea of Safari together with iTunes downloads is actually quite good for increasing it’s market share (while there still should be option to have iTunes without optional addons). Just to hope that Safari will get more stable on Windows before that…

By: Mark S.

Mark S. — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:34:19 +0000

Let’s not forget the PC users have Garage Band envy big time!

By: dGnome33

dGnome33 — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:14:22 +0000

Found a link on Youtube, it was All Things Digital 5. The entire video is available on youtube, and it is quite long. It may take a while to fing the part I refer to.

By: dGnome33

dGnome33 — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:10:18 +0000

I must point out the recent convention appearance, where Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were interviewed together. Apologies as I cant quite remember which conference this was.

Bill Gates Freely admitted that Microsoft are one of the primary purchasers of Mac hardware. In fact, it was also stated that many of the Microsoft in-house projects for the XBOX 360 are developed using macs.

So, it is of my opinion that Microsoft does indeed recognise the merit of the mac OS, and the fact that certain tasks are better performed using this, as opposed to the windows platform.