Comments on: Will Microsoft Adopt Darwin?

By: Paul D. Murphy

Paul D. Murphy — Tue, 23 May 2006 16:51:10 +0000

You are a moron. Microsoft is working closely with Apple because they will be delivering a CLR version for the MAC at some point in the near future.

By: Redlance305

Redlance305 — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:23:32 +0000

(sigh of relief!)

If there was ever going to be truth in all this.

Perhaps Apple will make a small Windows Mac Mini to test the Windows waters! Even better a dual OS Mac Mini. Nothing huge to hurt the Pro Line and nothing too ‘pretty’ to distract from the pure beauty of the iMac line. Just a harsh spunky middle child to feed to the wolfs/hackers and Windows switchers. That leaves it open to stay in the middle, move up or down the product line or get totally dropped.

Just a thought! You heard it here first!

(loved the story by the way, had me really worried, more so than Dvorak’s!)

By: Chris Holland

Chris Holland — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:55:31 +0000

Macnoto: That’s exactly what I asked myself when i first read Dvorak’s article :o

By: macnoto

macnoto — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 06:35:28 +0000

a little early april mop? :D

By: Zac

Zac — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:13:26 +0000

Funny stuff man. This dude is raving tard and needs to be silenced.

Check this out: http://dvorakisnuts.org/ or sign the patition to smack this dood down a few:
http://www.petitiononline.com/jdvorak/petition.html

This dude makes me feel all special on the inside.

By: Jonathan Fletcher

Jonathan Fletcher — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:43:39 +0000

Gynecologist? Sounds more like a gastroenterologist (proctologist).

By: axel

axel — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:09:05 +0000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34928209@N00/101324128/ something funny on the same theam. Can you spot the mac

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 07:27:47 +0000

Bob:

If you look around at some of the more recent Microsoft / AMD ads and such they are becomming quite the bum buddies! While AMD makes far superior chips than Intel at the moment (especially on the server end, less so on the mobile end, a-la Pentium-M / Core), they seem to be developing at least a marketing relationship with Microsoft. So it would make sense that they could just fall back on AMD as their main platform which of course is the same as intel’s, only better (for now :)).

What _I’M_ waiting for is someone to make viable cell processors and throw 15 of them into a desktop! WOO!!!

By: Bob Jacobson

Bob Jacobson — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 04:58:12 +0000

Intel’s going to abandon support for Microsoft, forcing it to fall back on an old friend for compatible chips — IBM. A little bird with flu told me.

(Hey, anything goes in the world of gonzo high-tech journalism!)

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:26:21 +0000

Hahahahaha!!! Professor of Gynecology! Perfect! Blog post of the day.

By: Bob Jacobson

Bob Jacobson — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:42:40 +0000

It’s pretty clear that Microsoft has to do SOMETHING! Windows is nobody’s OS of choice.

By: Chris Holland

Chris Holland — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:39:13 +0000

veridicus: yes, i was. in this specific instance i was shooting for the cheesiest way possible i could link microsoft to some obscure BSD roots, to “justify” their move to Darwin :)

By: veridicus

veridicus — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:32:04 +0000

The TCP/IP stack taken from BSD is an old and very tiny part of the OS. It can’t be considered part of a bigger plot.

But then again I hope you’re being sarcastic.

By: Rob O

Rob O — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:03:09 +0000

Ha ha! Nice take. :-)

Did you catch the Joy of Tech comic about this?

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/789.html

By: Robert Padbury

Robert Padbury — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:40:55 +0000

When I heard that Dvorak said he had ‘very compelling evidence’ that Mac would switch to intel, I was open minded to hearing his evidence.

The so-called evidence was so laughable that I’m actually really dissapointed in him. Brilliant article, and yes, sadly I remember the Microsoft Switch campaign.

By: Pan

Pan — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:44:48 +0000

Another thing I (perhaps falsely) remember about the MS switch campaign was the attached Word document that revealed the author to be a PR consultant whose company did work for MS