Re: How MS eats up Apple

In article <b2a44$485ac1c1$3131@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Edwin" <Thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <44mdne-mE4yOJcfVnZ2dnUVZ_tPinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alan Baker wrote:
In article <1N6dndESyqbha8TVnZ2dnUVZ_gKdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

BlueBuyYoo wrote:
In <7948e$4857e450$13786@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Edwin"
<thorne25@xxxxxxxx>
writes:


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In <7MU4k.6822$s77.5604@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "weedhopper"
<Whopper@xxxxxxx> writes:

One bite at a time.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/
"Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft
Exchange
2007
built into Mail, Address Book, and iCal. Mac OS X uses the
Exchange
Web
Services protocol to provide access to Exchange Server 2007.
Because
Exchange is supported on your Mac and iPhone, you'll be able to
use
them
anywhere with full access to your email, contacts, and calendar."
Well, that's actually a good thing. People will no longer be tied
to a MS desktop to access their corporate email.
How nice you find it a "good thing" Apple devices are becoming mere
peripherals of an MS Exchange Server.
So, if your Vista system accesses an Apache web server running on a
Solaris
system, does it become a Solaris peripheral?

People want an alternative to the MS desktop.
They do?

You bet they do.

Allowing full access to
corporate mail servers from non-MS systems is a "good thing".
Full access? I wonder how many Exchange features OS X Snow Leopard
*won't* support, versus Microsoft Outlook.

That would depend mostly on whether Microsoft creates any new features
in order to keep it from being compatible, I'd bet.

No, it would depend on Apple including all the features that are there
today. Which I bet they won't. Many they will decide Apple users
don't need.

Give examples of this...

You just asked for examples of things done in the future! LOL

Since Steve was clearly claiming to extrapolate from Apple's past, I was
clearly asking for examples from that timeframe.



Do you think Microsoft would add new features that would break all the
existing Microsoft client products today?

Yup, because they could offer updates to existing client products.

Nobody will be surprised when you can't supply any examples of when MS ever
did such a thing.

Note the word "could", not will.

As for MS deliberately introducing incompatibilities:

"DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run"

And deliberate misleading error messages about the compatibility of
DR-DOS with Windows.

--
"The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" --
"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone
"It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X)
'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' --
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM)
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)
.

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