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Hokay, so, this is actually totally possible on the Mac and many games do it. Valheim, baldur’s gate 1,2 & 3, No Man’s Sky, Subnautica, 7 Days to Die, Minecraft, I could keep going all do this (and even give you the options of resolutions with and without the notch).
FPS games are pretty much all that’s missing and I suck at those so they don’t matter 🤣
“We have to let go of the notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose. We need to embrace a notion that for Apple to win, Apple has to do a really good job.”
I think there are a lot of people who would be well served by adopting this type of thinking in their lives for a lot of things.
I switched to Mac computers with the early 2009 Mac Mini. Once I got used to the OS differences I’ve never been tempted to switch back to anything that uses Microsoft, but that’s just a personal preference.
I think there are a lot of people who would be well served by adopting this type of thinking in their lives for a lot of things.
I switched to Mac computers with the early 2009 Mac Mini. Once I got used to the OS differences I’ve never been tempted to switch back to anything that uses Microsoft, but that’s just a personal preference.
Sadly yes. We recently moved from Zoom to Teams and the reception amongst my colleagues has been pretty negative, in part due to baffling omissions like breakout rooms, and the UI just being more confusing and unwieldy.
Maybe, but I’m not sure that a lack of Office for Mac would have killed Apple, it was already languishing. It never really appealed to generic business in the first place (in this timeline, it’s great now if there’s a budget for it). By the time 1998 was rolling around, the iMac was just the beginning of revival for Apple.
It’s also possible if the iMac didn’t have Internet Explorer it could have been a big problem. Website compatibility was such a big deal, and Netscape was terrible.
In any case, it’s fun to think about what could have been.
It was a nice excuse to boot up Mini vMac and use Excel 1.0. Happy Birthday!
Honestly I use Microsoft products for work and they suck imo. My iPhone & iPad easily wipe the floor with them my biggest gripe is why on earth do you need to change passwords every 5 minutes Apple don’t do this 🤷🏻♂️. The Xbox 360 at its worst with the red ring and tanking two generations of consoles with the one and s&x. PlayStation on the other hand I had 5 generations of zero problems with the main console 😎.
Can we take it out back and shoot it? Honestly I can’t stand Microsoft products these days and only use a Windows machine to game. I hope one day Apple will create a competitive powerhouse GPU and we can finally game on the Mac and ditch the PC once and for all.
One can dream.
One can dream.
The shift was an organisational decision, so not my decision to make. We were actually considered the holdouts, as everybody else in our ministry was already all in on Microsoft.
Another annoyance - I need to be using my school laptop and logged in via VPN to use Teams, unlike Zoom, where I can sign in from another computer like my Mac. So I pretty much have to be in school when I need to use Teams for any meeting, as VPN connection can be quite unreliable at home.
You know i purchase 79 dollar family office 365 subscription but really it is just for work. I am going to stop it soon as I replaced everything Office with iCloud and iWork
Not sure what you mean with passwords, I haven’t changed mine in years. The RROD was caused by a generation of cheap solder, this also affected the original fat PS3 with the yellow light of death, by the end it had similar failure rates as the launch 360. This also impacted laptop GPU’s for some generations. It was prolific.
Throughout the decades, the only difference between Microsoft and Apple and is that Microsoft was and still is a software company. All the "Microsoft" hardware was basically a custom order from some hardware manufacturer with the Microsoft logo slapped onto it. The "Microsoft mouse" from the late 90ies for example was actually a Logitech mouse.
Microsoft had a great start by going for the office applications in the 80's for Macintosh. And later by providing development software for almost free at colleges and making deals with hardware makers to provide their OS with every new PC. Trying to force themselves in every digital market. Genius but aggressive market thinking then. But eventually they went overboard in their confidence when they tried and failed to copy/take over products from others.
I have worked for both companies and been heavily involved on the OS sides. I worked at MS for 5+ years and made a lot of my living around the MS eco system. The best PC I ever owned was a 12” MacBook running Windows in boot camp and then I was forced to run MacOS for an extended period and I’ve never gone back. But also Finder is the worst. Explorer was better 10 years ago than Finder is today! Everything else I prefer in Mac, stability, battery life, deep integration etc. but Finder sucks, it’s not good and did I mention it sucks. The only thing that makes it liveable is that I use OneDrive for my file storage so I can get the explorer experience in the cloud
Makes sense. I imagine it’s like google paying for Mozilla to exist.
Not with the versatility of the version afforded by Zoom.
The context was that we needed to conduct a mass briefing for parents online, before they dispersed into different rooms according to what class their child was in.
This was pretty straightforward with Zoom. Everyone logged into one giant zoom session, teachers created individual breakout rooms labelled with the name of their class, and the parents chose which room to go into.
With Teams, you have to pre-assign what breakout room to assign each individual participant into, and this only works if they are specifically invited as a participant of said session. It was simply not feasible when you are dealing with hundreds of parents who joined via a shared link.
We ended up just hosting two separate teams sessions instead, but I just felt the omission baffling.
Don’t even get me started about the “wisdom” of placing the share screen button next to the leave icon…
Teams do not require a VPN to connect to the service. I suppose it's something your organization requires.The shift was an organisational decision, so not my decision to make. We were actually considered the holdouts, as everybody else in our ministry was already all in on Microsoft.
Another annoyance - I need to be using my school laptop and logged in via VPN to use Teams, unlike Zoom, where I can sign in from another computer like my Mac. So I pretty much have to be in school when I need to use Teams for any meeting, as VPN connection can be quite unreliable at home.
I have a windows 10 laptop for work. 90% of the times it's docked and attached to two 24" monitors. Honestly, it's a wash...I can use macOS or windows, and I don't really care either way.
I have always thought that Finder is a poor equivalent to Finder. Why, or why, can't finder a have an address bar where I can type in the file system location I'm wanting to navigate to? I don't want to go there via submenus.
No ****, the only differences between Windows 11 and Windows 10 are (1) my work PC now runs slower and hotter, and (2) apps are even harder to find.
The password thing must be turned on by the company I work for it’s so annoying 😂. I did hear about the yellow light never had it myself, nowhere near a problem like the rrod was.
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Jobs was right. It’s not winner takes all… it’s rising tides lift all ships.
Jobs was right. It’s not winner takes all… it’s rising tides lift all ships.