Microsoft "regrets" Mac-to-PC ad. The software giant's "Confessions of a Mac to PC convert" was a short-lived conversion. The ad, which took a cue from Apple, is already dead. [CNET News.com]

Typical Micro$oft. First, they do a fake add. Then they screw up by saying the wrong things in it (like claiming there is no Office for Mac OS X). Then they try to hide what they did. Finally, they claim to regret what they did. It is exactly the strategy for product development...

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Miguel writes to the King of Norway.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

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Tremor in the Force: iMac is PC Mag's Editors' Choice [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

Maybe the iMac is the chosen one, whom, according to the legend, will bring balance to The Force.

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Microsoft Judge Takes His Case to the Public [Slashdot]

I wish this was true, but in tipical /. and journalistic fashion is just a misleading headline. He is just saying to other judges that he thinks the rules under which he was criticize are wrong headed. I wish he would really say what he thinks of the ruling by the appeals court and of the time that has passed since then. Timely justice, anyone?

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Site for the Truly Geeky Makes a Few Bucks. Could Slashdot, the online publication with millions of techie followers, be the 21st-century model for Internet publishing? By John Schwartz. [New York Times: Technology]

It's funny how this people talk as if /. were the same site it was at the beginning. They don't mention the "pay or we will show you the ads" subscription, or the fact that most of the original users are turn off by the site. Go to any discussion and read the comments of users with user numbers less than 20000, they are few and far appart. The most important users are leaving /. but since they are making money, it's okey. For me /. jump the shark when CmdrTaco proposed on the site. Now, the want to use Mac OS X, they even have an Apple /., but no Windows /. Why not? and don't tell me it is because Mac OS X is Unix and Windows is not... They could just call it backslashdot...

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IBM Promises Muscle for the Mac. Big Blue announces a processor to power a new line of Macintosh computers. The chip is designed to put Macs neck-and-neck with Intel's Pentium line -- and even start new 'computing wars.' By Robert McMillan. [Wired News]

Sounds nice, but unless they can run current software faster, which I don't see how they could, it won't make a difference. Most people are happy with the speed of their current PCs (be them Mac or Windows). The few that are not, aren't worth a lot of trouble...

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