Microsoft

Today Reuters reports that Microsoft, as of today, together with OD2 sells music to European windows users. The service is built into Windows Media Player 9 and the price setting is the same as iTMS. Souce: Reuters http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030813/tech_internet_music_1.html It's sad they got here before Apple...:(

Hey, Im new here. I was surprised to notice when I first got my PowerBookG5 that it did not come with Apple Works, or Microsoft Office v.X! Only a 30 day trial for Microsoft Office v.X. I looked to see how much it would cost. ...

Quark is the Microsoft of publishing and always will be. End of story. They are too entrenched. InDesign had forever and a day to gain ground and barely made a scratch. ...

In Computer Arts (May Issue) they were discussing Encore DVD. There was a section in regards to the lack of a Mac version. Here it is: (Pardon any mis-spellings) But why no mac version? "There's a number of reasons," explains Mark Cokes, Senior Manager of Digital Video at Adobe. "One is because of DVD Studio Pro and its market share on the Mac. Second, we see the DVD...

million "settlement" between Microsoft and AOL is going to hit Apple in a number of ways. ...

I also don't see the point of Microsoft doing this... ...

You bring up a very interesting point. The MS factor is probably the best reason against Adobe hedging their bets on an all MS policy. If Adobe made all their decisions based upon profit, that would make sense. But look at the Premiere/Encore decisions, and you can see that's not the case. Premiere always sold well on the Mac, and did big business in bundling with...

That's no article, that's one persons opinion. For one, Office XP Pro is about $500 (though it may be $1000 where the author is from). Microsoft got to be known by selling office for mac's late at the 80's. Uh, I think M$ was well known way before that. They may have become known to Mac users late in the 80's, but they were known to CPM and DOS (obviously) way before...

Here is a good article about Microsoft and bill gates. ...

of Entourage. Why didn't Microsoft make this a priority? ...