Ladies and gentlemen, there is now officially a Bill O'Reilly of the computer blogging world. Not only is she embarrassingly stupid, she blatantly reports things that are the complete opposite of what the collective human race calls "reality." This woman is Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet.com.
Foley wrote a column today that nearly made smoke fume from my nose. It's titled "Leopard looks like. . .Vista." In her blog, Foley lists 10 ways in which the new Leopard operating system is very, very similar to Windows Vista, not only with operating system features, but general visual aesthetics as well. Hmm.....I really wonder why that is. Could it be that Microsoft stole every possible feature from Apple's OS X Tiger?!
Noooo, nooooo. Not in Foley's make-believe world. In her fantasy land, its the other way around! Foley's list is very blunt in its intention of stating the [extremely false] obvious: Apple stole everything from Microsoft. It's as if OS X hasn't been around since 2001. As if Apple is this new computer company that needed to model a new product off of something that was already existing.
I refuse to sit here and write a diatribe on how Apple's OS X is a superior operating system to Windows. That's just a given with respect to usability, reliability, speed, and security. I generally don't like to waste my time re-enforcing facts.
Nor am I a "fanboy" of Apple so much as I am a "fanboy" of reality. In fact, I use a Windows box at work. That said, I have only one thing to proclaim: Mary Jo Foley, you're a dumbass.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
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hah! what a fucktard.
i dunno if it's on the level or close to or maybe beyond bill gates making an excuse for not having an update in 6-7 years, saying pretty bluntly that apple has been vunerable to outside attacks and how MS has been building a solid system.
sigh.
btw, you were trying to call me write? i heard you but i guess you couldn't hear me. i tried calling back but it rang a few times before giving me some error in system connection. =/
Now, I've got both Vista and OSX, and let me say this about Vista's theft of the OSX file navigation system -- they certainly one-upped Apple. I keep trying to do things in the Apple file navigator that are simple in Vista (or XP) but unreasonably hard using the... what do we call it now? Finder? Is it still called that? Like create an empty text file or a window.
I liked the new ideas Apple had, but Windows executed them a little better.
Of course, I can only use Vista briefly before seeing a BSOD, but that's another matter entirely...
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