Posted on 10/14/2008 5:00:40 PM PDT by Loud Mime
With more people turning to Apple products, and the holiday season just around the corner, Microsoft is keen to emphasize the fact that users looking to switch from Microsoft face the “Apple tax.”
In an interview with CNET’s Ina Fried, Microsoft’s vice president of Windows Consumer Product Marketing Brad Brooks was keen to point out the hidden costs that face those making the switch. In fact, he outlines four different taxes:
* Choice tax
* Application tax
* Technology tax
* Upgrade tax
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.zdnet.com ...
Of course, this system is not a monopoly, right? /s
We should all go back to the abacus. In between doing sums we should be able to get some sort of a version of Pong going!
/mark
Microsoft Windows Vista has a POS Tax
There is some validity to the underlying claim. I recently got a Macbook and wanted to disable the mouse acceleration which I found annoying. The OS didn’t offer the functionality, so the option was to buy a third party app to do it. Small example of the apple tax right there.
Not to trivialize your problem, but you can click on the Apple, go to the “System Preferences” option, then click on the “Keyboard & Mouse”. This will give you options to slow the “Tracking”, “Scrolling”, and “Double Click”. I hope this solves your problem.
BWWHAHAHA. That's funny.
My Vista works very well with all my Adobe (suite) applications, Office 2007 and Firefox. After SP 1 it is wonderful.
I’ve had Vista on two machines since it launched with no problems. Vista hate is about as sensible as Bush hate.
You’re lucky, and most likely have nice hardware.
Yeah, Mac’s are more expensive. Everyone knows that fact but it’s not a tax. A tax is something you pay to the government.
More silliness from the company that has 92% of the PC OS market. Why does Microsoft care about Apple? Apple is no threat to Microsoft’s dominance and won’t be for the foreseeable future. Besides, you can run Windows on a Mac now. Maybe Microsoft should push that angle. And oh yeah, build a better version of Windows.
I love it.
From what I understand (I'm not a techie), this system will have many voice and touch screen features built in to the program. This means hardware upgrades.....again. I really don't care; I love the new toys.
Make good products and you won’t have to worry about Apple.
While some have Vista working fine, many more don’t.
Explorer 7.0 is unusable due to the layout. Why would the refresh button be located across the screen from the other stuff without the ability to customize?
Office 2007 has no ability to switch to a classic view. Simple thing yet left out.
Somebody is asleep at the wheel.
Once you go MAC, you never go back!
I am as conservative as anyone and we have run macs for years. This article is bunk! it cost me $9.99 after rebates for Parellels that allows me to run any Windows application and that included a copy of XP! I’m not even familiar with any colors that Apple is offering now, that stopped with the older iMacs and never cost extra though some colors had a waiting list. IMHO just another article to scare people back to what they know and just a bunch of BS!
System Preferences==>Keyboard and Mouse===>Trackpad
Perhaps they should have named the tab “mouse”, but it is not really a mouse, it’s a trackpad.
Sorry someone scammed you into buying a third party software.
Mac owners don’t have annual subscription fees for firewalls and antivirus software.
Mac owners have an amazing FREE office program available to them called NeoOffice.
We open .pdfs with Preview, and unlike a Windows computer, it will open ANY version of an pdf created with any software.
Someone who wanted absolutely “off” wrote some code and offers it for free here:
http://www.knockknock.org.uk/mac/
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