Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Tuesday, October 1, 2002

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Steal Your Interface: "Apple is credited with developing the graphical user interface, which Microsoft copied, but the contribution of users and small developers has been largerly overlooked. By Leander Kahney." [Wired News]


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Microsoft Cuts Office Price On New Macs: "On the surface, the bundling deal would appear to be a big price break for Mac users thinking of buying Office. But Windows users have more competing products to choose from and can pay much less for Office." (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]


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Aqua eye-candy comes to the PC: "Stardock has released a small utility that brings several of the dazzling effects seen in Apple's Aqua UI to the PC. WindowFX 2.0, released today, performs Direct3D operations including transparency and transitions on each window..." [The Register]


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Apple loses World's Most Valuable List: "The iTools database has none of these flaws. Using basic data mining, Apple can use this information to produce relationship maps, spending information and usage patterns that other companies can only dream about. It's pure gold and possibly the most valuable customer list in the world, ounce for ounce." [The Register]