Micro$oft trying (a little too hard) to be hip

macgulley · Postby **macgulley** » November 18th, 2009, 12:09 pm

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Microsoft-Employees-Dance-Video,9112.html:shock:

Almost makes me want to trade in my Mac (or maybe not) :lol:

Postby **Pastor Gary** » November 18th, 2009, 1:13 pm

You can't force or manufacture the cool factor. You either have it, or you are Micro$oft. :lol:

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » November 18th, 2009, 2:39 pm

Pastor Gary wrote:You can't force or manufacture the cool factor. You either have it, or you are Micro$oft.

Paully_44 · Postby **Paully_44** » November 18th, 2009, 3:59 pm

Pastor Gary wrote:You can't force or manufacture the cool factor. You either have it, or you are Micro$oft.

I dont know, Apple has done a pretty good job of it over the past few years.

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » November 19th, 2009, 4:09 am

Try watching it with no sound -- as my computer's sound card is disconnected when I got the new hard drive put in. I never used it anyway, but ....

Point is, without sound, it is very lame. I can only imagine how worse it is with half-hearted voices chiming in.

That was so very, very nauseatingly not cool. Micro$oft is to cool what Joe Biden is to suave. No matter how much Brut 33 they put on Windows, it still stinks. And, no, I don't have a Mac -- yet.

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » November 19th, 2009, 4:15 am

Paully_44 wrote:
Pastor Gary wrote:You can't force or manufacture the cool factor. You either have it, or you are Micro$oft.

I dont know, Apple has done a pretty good job of it over the past few years.

Paully!! You're still alive. Glad to see you brother! :lol:

macgulley · Postby **macgulley** » November 19th, 2009, 4:27 am

MacUser wrote:
Paully_44 wrote:
Pastor Gary wrote:You can't force or manufacture the cool factor. You either have it, or you are Micro$oft.

I dont know, Apple has done a pretty good job of it over the past few years.

Paully!! You're still alive. Glad to see you brother!

Paully has been busy learning the Micro$oft dance. :lol:

Paully_44 · Postby **Paully_44** » November 19th, 2009, 4:40 am

macgulley wrote:
MacUser wrote:
Paully_44 wrote:
Pastor Gary wrote:You can't force or manufacture the cool factor. You either have it, or you are Micro$oft.

I dont know, Apple has done a pretty good job of it over the past few years.

MacUser wrote:[
Paully!! You're still alive. Glad to see you brother!

yeah, still alive and kicking. Been too busy at work to want to look at a monitor when I get home.

macgulley wrote:Paully has been busy learning the Micro$oft dance.

I learned that long ago. If it werent for Bill, who know what I'd be doing right now. :wink:

darylscook · Postby **darylscook** » November 19th, 2009, 4:52 am

MACs market share has hit an all-time high now. It is now up to 5.26%

http://theappleblog.com/2009/11/02/mac-market-share-hits-all-time-high-following-windows-7-launch/

I still can't use a MAC because it's market share is so small that ESRI doesn't make it's software available for it; I would have to emulate windows which would defeat the purpose of going to a MAC.

Pastor Daryl

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » November 19th, 2009, 5:08 am

darylscook wrote:MACs market share has hit an all-time high now. It is now up to 5.26%

Really? It was 9.4 in September. The stock is soaring.
IDC Puts U.S. Apple’s Mac Market Share at 9.4% for September Quarter

Source:
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp;jsessioni ... US22040709

Bummer on the platform lock. The software companies refusing to port their speciality apps run the risk of being leapfrogged by an enterprising group ( Google, Adobe, Apple etc ). So is the way of the dinosaur. :wink:

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » November 19th, 2009, 5:18 am

Do you get a sense that Mac's market share is reaching a critical mass for Micro$oft? If they're at 10%, roughly, now, what will happen if it reaches 15% or 20%? Does the wall fall, finally? Do people suddenly toss up their hands and start flowing over to Mac? Will MS finally actually provide a platform that really, honestly, truly, actually, factually, without-a-doubtually does not suffer from the myriad of problems that Windows always provides?

If Windows were a car, the CPSC would've ruled it off the road years ago. Ralph Nader would've made a sequel to "Not Safe At Any Speed" devoted to Windows.

Jude 2