Ahh, when bloggers say something is dead we don't really mean it's dead as in nothing uses it. We mean it's dead in that it's a topic we don't talk about anymore.
- Robert Scoble
"I think this illustrates the fundamental difference between Apple, a seller of luxury consumer products, and Microsoft, a developer of business and consumer platforms." well said.
- Jon Galloway
If they could both get over their silly snubbing of each other and start working together, serious awesomeness could ensue.
- Chad Myers
Silly snubbing of each other? Which company has licensed its ActiveSync software to the other? Which one refused to license its Fairplay DRM to anyone? Which company has a vicious ad campaign that bashes the other one's products? I do believe that Apple is the bigger offender here.
- Ed Bott
@Ed: I'm not arguing that, and you're right anyhow. Microsoft's not quite as overt, but they aren't making huge efforts on the Mac platform. It's more than token, but not as much as it could be.
- Chad Myers
HAHAAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA best video ever! here we are trying to get 82,000,000 friends on facebook and these people don't care about real friends :)
- Allen Stern
The other great reality show cliche is when they say "I won't talk behind your - I'll just say it straight to your face". Brutal honesty is not always a good thing ;-(
- jeremy ettinghausen
Still crackin up over the title of this as it appears to people on FF. When you first read it, you're like WTF!?
- Andrew Baron
Is it sad when you recognize a lot of these people?
- Hao Chen
This kind of a meme is called a "Supercut" a re-edited run like this full of a single phrase. A common type of supercut will include the same actor or person saying the same words over and over throughout a film or series of films and appearances.
- Andrew Baron
Never believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see. A lie can get told on the news, by the president (happens all the time), anywhere.
- The Kid
MS-bashing is a play to the bleachers. Easy. I'm surprised how much that MS provides is simply taken for granted.
- Sprague D
I expect this kind of fallacious crap from a blog, not from the New York Times. But Randall Stross seems to be on some kind of tear, apparently suffering from Dvorak Syndrome. It's almost guaranteed that when someone trashes an operating system by calling it "bloated" -- instead of criticizing performance, compatibility, reliability, security, etc. -- that they don't know jack shit. And clearly he has a short memory when it came to the DISASTER that was OS X 10.0.
- Karim
I'd add to the list by saying that when Microsoft made Visual Studio Express Editions free to the general public, they opened the gates to a flood of developers. More devs= more innovation= better for everyone.
- Roberto Bonini
Visual Studio Express is a great thing - as is the XNA platform. You can now have a full game and high performance graphics development toolkit for free that runs on PC's and Zune's for free and it is only $99 a year to develop for the Xbox360 which is an unheard of ability on a top shelf console. People complain about MS all the time - but they do a lot of really, really good stuff.
- Soulhuntre