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Doesn't he own alot os Mac

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funny but is the picture real

hehehe, now that is believing in your company, the American way

8O Wee....thats the world's richest man on candid camera ^_^ hahaha

Don't know why everyone's so surprised - if I owned MS, I'd make damn sure I knew the pros and cons of the competition's products.

Yeah. I think more software companies would benefit if they actually looked at the competition to see what they did right, and what they did wrong. Then you emulate the right bits, and fix the wrong ones. Voila, a better product. I find this especially true in games, where comparisons are inevitable, and you end up saying things like 'If only they'd done this like they did in Diablo', or something similar.

Synkronos wrote:Yeah. I think more software companies would benefit if they actually looked at the competition to see what they did right, and what they did wrong. Then you emulate the right bits, and fix the wrong ones. Voila, a better product. I find this especially true in games, where comparisons are inevitable, and you end up saying things like 'If only they'd done this like they did in Diablo', or something similar.

Correction. Bill ends up reverse engineering the right bits and blaming the wrong bits on user incompetence.

Either that or he copies the GUI mistakes from Apple

Honestly, after watching my brother working on MacOSx and meddling myself, I'm not overawed by what I see.

It's just another GUI with it's own set of issues.

Actually, it's kinda funny - seeing all this Unix stuff with a GUI overlay, such as windows file sharing that uses Samba - a nice product, but slow and buggy as hell.

I'm sure Bill has Linux running too and I'm sure Jobs has a secret winXP box running - heck, he probably has access to Longhorn builds.

I see no reason why Apple and Microsoft shouldn't be buddies in many ways and in fact they are when it comes down to it. It makes good business sense for both sides.

After all, Jobs is going into the music distribution industry and Gates is trying to enter the home entertainment industry - the two paths can be mutally beneficial for each other.

Thats just sad... He propably got sick of blue screens and swopped over...

Now he tells everyone he doesnt have any problems on his system... but omits the fact it isnt MS relater

I'd say that pic's fake, don't see Gates sitting in the back of some dingy dark room full of crap dismantled pcs' looking guilty by chance. Photoshop face-transplant more like. Of course microsoft have macs on research and vice versa, business/buyers/profit would have it no other way.

I'd have to agree with CALE24 here...Photoshop is amazing. I wouldn't be caught dead "admiring" the competitions products even though I knew that my product sucked in comparison.

Question - MS has said longhorn will probably only be released in full in 5yrs time. I hope you all realize that Mac OSx is already a damn site better (in all depts) than beloved old windows so my quesion is: where do we put MacOS x in 5yrs? Heck, they're already releasing Tiger into the wild shortly...wonder how many attacks MS will be subject to?

to infinity and beyond, signing off.

truce