Apple resellers are set to launch a marketing campaign urging consumers to buy a Mac with an Intel Duel Core processor over a traditional PC to run their new Vista operating system .
Due for release next Tuesday several Sydney resellers are set to promote the new Mac desktops and notebooks with Intel processors as being ideal to run the new Microsoft OS.
In Italy an Inquirer journalist found a reseller that has already jumped the gun by configuring the Vista OS with a 24 inch screen to run on an Apple Mac Computer. It was running in 1080p mode.
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In fact many people are saying that the new Vista OS is a lot like the Mac OS X and that a lot of what is in the new Microsoft operating system is a deliberate copy of the Mac OS X software.
Longtime Windows development chief James Allchin wrote in a January 2004 e-mail to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and company co-founder Bill Gates that the software vendor had “lost sight” of customers’ needs and said he would buy a Mac if he wasn’t working for Microsoft.
“In my view, we lost our way,” Allchin, the co-president of Microsoft’s platform and services division, wrote in an e-mail dated Jan. 7, 2004 … “I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means, what full scenarios mean, what security means, what performance means, how important current applications are, and really understanding what the most important problems our customers face are. I see lots of random features and some great vision, but that does not translate into great products.”
Allchin, who has headed various aspects of Windows development since the mid-1990s but plans to retire at the end of this year with the shipping of Windows Vista, later wrote in the same e-mail that he would buy a Mac if he was not a Microsoft employee.
Troy Wolverton reports for The San Jose Mercury News. ” Apple plans to release Leopard, the fifth revision of its rival Mac OS X software. As with previous updates, Leopard will add a number of new features to the operating system… could prove important for Apple. In recent years, the company has made much of the differences between the Mac OS and Windows. Macs are more stable, more secure and easier to use, the company has repeatedly told potential customers.”
Wolverton reports, “Consumers appear to be listening. In recent quarters, Apple has repeatedly gained share in the PC market with its growth rates outpacing that of the broader industry. Meanwhile, more than half of all Macintosh computers sold in the United States are being bought by consumers who are new to the platform, either because they’ve switched from Windows or have never owned a computer before, CEO Steve Jobs said at Macworld.”
“‘Some people may say Vista is close enough (to the Mac OS), and that’ll be good enough for me,’ said Bob O’Donnell, an analyst who covers the PC industry for research firm IDC,” Wolverton reports.
