blogs.zdnet.com - 7/2/2009
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Every time the subject of OS licensing comes up, Apple's defenders point to the OS X Family Pack as one of the biggest differentiators between their favorite OS and Windows. But it looks like that difference is likely to go away when Windows 7 is released. I've got the text of a near-final ...
theappleblog.com - 7/6/2009
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theappleblog.com —
While I live and play in the land
of Apple, where rainbow-farting unicorns frolic in the meadows,...
I work in a Windows world. While being a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Apple Pundits dictates otherwise, I don’t view ...
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Macs in the Enterprise: A Firsthand Tale
db.tidbits.com - 7/9/2009
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db.tidbits.com —
Is it 1994 again? Google's announcement of Google
Chrome OS , a stripped-down, open-source operating system optimized...
for inexpensive netbooks, reminds those of us with medium-length memories of the epic Netscape/Microsoft battle of the mid-1990s, and it raises questions about Google and Apple ...
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Google Chrome OS to Power Netbooks in 2010
theiphoneblog.com - 7/2/2009
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theiphoneblog.com —
Despite frequent, repeated denials from Microsoft that they
aren’t making a Zune Phone to pit against Apple’s...
iPhone juggernaut, our sibling site WMExperts keeps compiling evidence that Microsoft might be doing just that. The ...
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The Competition: Microsoft “is so!” Making a Pink Zune ...
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Evidence of Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack
jkOnTheRun —
... Ed Bott eye-spied some legalese in the latest Windows 7 licensing agreement that leads him to believe Microsoft will indeed offer a family pack for the operating system. Ed found this tidbit in the Windows 7 Home Premium version: ...
Windows 7 Pricing vs. Mac OS X: Why Even Go There?
TheAppleBlog —
... Still, there are some in the Microsoft community that try to justify it by comparing it to Apple’s pricing for Mac OS X. Microsoft can never win this game. Heck, Microsoft never even gets in this game. And yet, you have folks like Ed Bott at ZDNet giving it a shot. Here’s his latest salvo: ...
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