Oh this is to funny..Vista ain't a OSX RipOff

[Samurai]

hehe- I'm in the thick of the Vista Launch at work this week, it's been great fun.

Customer: "We're interested in buying a laptop computer for the home. We're general computer users and are aware of Windows Vista. What's the big deal?"

Me: "Well, Vista has a lot of advantages over Windows XP... *insert explanation of Vista here...* and it's a lot more user friendly and intuitive for general users."

Customer: "Oh, excellent. Do you like Vista so far?"

Me: "Oh yeah- I think its a big improvement."

Customer: "What sort of computer do you have then?"

Me: "I have an Apple Mac."

Customer: "What's the difference?"

Me: "Not a huge amount since Tuesday..."

Ten minutes later they left the store with a MacBook.

[Flyingmonkey]

Funny stuff, I've been wonder when Microsoft would at least try and make their os more user freindly, I guess 5 years behind Apple isn't that bad.

[Spry]

HAHAHA! Nice one Greg! Spread the love baby!

[Tovette]

Originally Posted by Spry

HAHAHA! Nice one Greg! Spread the love baby!

You and your fascist Apple devilry!!

[proteus33]

but didn't bill gates buy apple computers a few years back.

[Comco]

He bought a sizable portion of the company if I recall, pulling it out of near financial bankruptcy...

[Pyrocitor]

that's pretty good

I use both windows and mac and i like the mac OS but I still prefer windows, at least when programs crash in windows, it usually gives you some random error number or tells you which important system file that cant be deleted just crashed your program, mac's just tell you the progam closed unexpectedly and ask you if you want to reopen the program

anyway, I better go to bed now seeing as it's 3 in the morning over here, but before I do here's a vid highlighting afew of the macs "best" features YouTube - PC vs Mac

[blakbyrd]

Originally Posted by Comco

He bought a sizable portion of the company if I recall, pulling it out of near financial bankruptcy...

I remember someone saying that Gates bought a type of stock, I think it was referred to as "non-voting stock".

Ah, here, from 1997: Jobs names Apple board - Aug. 6, 1997

From last year: MacDailyNews | Six years ago today: the infamous Apple-Microsoft deal announced

[Jedilaw]

Originally Posted by citizen

The thought occures, is there ANYTHING MS has actually invented, ANY contribution they've made to computing, at all?

Stock-option compensation packages? If MS didn't invent them outright they are the earliest tech company I know of to feature stock as a salary enhancer. Think of all the people who wouldn't have gone to work for tech companies if they didn't see a chance of becoming young millionaires.

[Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by citizen

The thought occures, is there ANYTHING MS has actually invented, ANY contribution they've made to computing, at all?

Home computers as a mainstream phenomenon. Who came up with the concept of personal computer/ GUIs and what not is largely irrelevant. Microsoft (and mainly it's marketing machine) is pretty much the main reason you're hard pressed to find a spot on the planet that isn't a walking distance away from a PC of some sort.

Although after reading the comments on both vids linked, I'm not sure that's a good thing.