Apple Has Let the Cat Out of the Bag, Again. . . MEOW!!!

[Mr. Nice Guy]

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[Spiffor]

So ?

[yavoon]

does apple ever plan on reinstating customizability and functionality back into its product? or is like the 1 button mouse now the calling card for eternity?

[Q Classic]

meanwhile, the rest of the business world is looking at office 2003.

10.3's nice, though. but right now, it's the kinda "oh, that's nice, dear" type deal.

[yavoon]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
meanwhile, the rest of the business world is looking at office 2003.

10.3's nice, though. but right now, it's the kinda "oh, that's nice, dear" type deal.

I personally like my notepad. uninstall office if at all possible.

[monolith94]

You can use your own non 1-button mouse on a mac.

[Q Classic]

actually, that functionality's been around ever since X came out.

and as for notepad or office...

the business world is looking at it. individuals, well, that's up to their tastes. i personally like office myself, except for powerpoint, frontpage, and access, and this new infopath thing i don't have any use for, while onenote is intriguing, but only if you have a tabletpc.

[Spiffor]

Except that it sill be even more resource-guzzling, and that it will have a richer vocabulary in the .dic file, what will Office 2003 bring?

[H Tower]

um, aren't most of these new features considered standard for winXP users?

-iChat? It's just a confrencing program
-switch to another user account without logging out and quitting current applications? I've got that.
-Customize keyboard shortcuts for the system and applications? I've got that too.

And we’re not even counting all of them. Apple engineers have spent months fine-tuning Panther, tinkering under the hood to offer you the best operating system in the world, bar none. We think you’ll agree.

What sets Panther apart from XP? What makes it the best, bar none?

[yavoon]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Except that it sill be even more resource-guzzling, and that it will have a richer vocabulary in the .dic file, what will Office 2003 bring?

the cost will be implemented into the cost of ur new computer. so it will always bring bill $$$. beyond that tho, I imagine it will give the american economy jobs. and that will make george happy.

[Q Classic]

for the end user at his home? not much. for a corporate setting? lots, but only if you have other microsoft products that it can integrate into. something called "synergy".

for a corporation to fully use the office 2k3 system (that's what they're calling it these days) to its potential, they have to have the windows server system as well.

there's secure encryption of files (info rights management), secure im, identical outlook2003/owa interfaces, smarttags, native xml support, easy integration/import between office file formats and uploading to collaborative sites using the sharepoint server...

like i said, for the individual, well, it's up to you. i like it, but that won't stop me from using abiword.

[Q Classic]

the cost will be implemented into the cost of ur new computer. so it will always bring bill $$$.

not quite. the only thing microsoft has managed to finagle getting licensing from for all computers is windows, not office. he gets most of his money on office from corporate licensing, not end-user/consumer sales, and virtually nothing from putting it on oem desktops--mostly because when you get it with an oem desktop, you're getting the retail version.

so it won't be implemented into the cost of your new computer, is what i'm saying. only windows is.

[Q Classic]

What sets Panther apart from XP? What makes it the best, bar none?

it's mac, htower. that automatically makes it better.

[Spiffor]

You seem very knowledgeable about Microsoft's commercial strategy... You work for the dark lord, Q?

[yavoon]

Originally posted by Q Cubed

the cost will be implemented into the cost of ur new computer. so it will always bring bill $$$.

not quite. the only thing microsoft has managed to finagle getting licensing from for all computers is windows, not office. he gets most of his money on office from corporate licensing, not end-user/consumer sales, and virtually nothing from putting it on oem desktops--mostly because when you get it with an oem desktop, you're getting the retail version.

so it won't be implemented into the cost of your new computer, is what i'm saying. only windows is.

its all an accounting wash anyway. since any cost can be suppositionally funneled through the monopoly(windows).