Attempt by MSN to "Crapify" Macs?

[MidwestStuck]

Just noticed this little tidbit towards the bottom of the MSN homepage. Clicking on the "Mac Tiger Users..." link takes you to this page, where they tell Tiger users to lower their screen resolution. Innocent tip or malicious scheme?

 

[Amdahl]

Sounds like a clumsy attempt to help people increase resolution in cases where they are set too low.

 

[racers]

says tiger but I only see Leopard. dumb ms

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

LOL, that's completely pointless. No idea why MS is recommending that.

 

[VPrime]

LOL, that's completely pointless. No idea why MS is recommending that.

They want people using atleast 1024x768 for their site... Even the windows insutructions suggest 1024x768... Except they say "or higher" for windows users 😛

What I find funny is that the windows instructions take 7 steps and only 3 for a mac... and in the windows XP instructions they ask you to switch to classic view (doesnt this change the user friendly thing they went for originally? 😉 )..

Though, the windows instructions could be lowered to 3 as well but they tell people to do it the hard way 😕

 

[Matek]

It's quite funny how you manage to find a conspiracy in a simple resolution-setting help text 😀. I guess the iTunes installer is attempting to "crapify" PCs by installing Safari & Quicktime as well 😛.

 

[olliea95]

Yeah, definitely instructions for Leopard. The funny thing is that if you click the link to the right saying "Instructions for Leopard" it gives you instructions for Tiger...

But we get them back by crapifying their computers with iTunes installer and the updater 🙂