The most useful like I have ever seen you post! I was/am waiting for something like this.
Looks like it is missing over-the-air configuration and management?
iPads are still a long way away from being major corporate tools, but they might get there with the right decision.
I don't blame them. Maintenance and just purchasing Apple products costs way too much. Company funds should be used wisely on products that get the job done the best way, not the trendyish way.
Nothing has changed???
Now I'm seriously calling BS on your little story and your entire background.
Turns out the DVD driver was corrupted and needed to be re-installed.
I don't think it's healthy to keep your employees in a bubble.
I remember reading a blog post by an ex-MS guy who went to work as a Google Evangelist. At Google, he switched to a MacBook Pro and love it. He'd never used a Mac before.
How can MS compete with Apple effectively if they don't really know the Apple user experience?
Very sensible post. As the saying goes, know thy enemy. If Microsoft wants to compete, they have to analyze how Apple focuses on user experience and quality and improve their own methods.
Indeed.
If this isn't pure BS, what was the name of the "DVD driver" and from where did you download a good copy? (There's no "dvd.sys" in Windows....)
It's amazing that your bad karma with Windows is so powerful that it can affect your friends' mothers-in-law....
Not surprising. Did anyone try to get 10.7 to join a Windows domain? What a nightmare.
Developers developers developer develo...
Win 7 is quite good though.
No red herrings. We can agree to disagree.
Yes, I'm sure that happens all the time at Apple.
I don't think it's healthy to keep your employees in a bubble.
I remember reading a blog post by an ex-MS guy who went to work as a Google Evangelist. At Google, he switched to a MacBook Pro and love it. He'd never used a Mac before.
How can MS compete with Apple effectively if they don't really know the Apple user experience?
Configured the magic triangle at my previous job. Apple sales engineers spoke of it's wonders, but it was a nightmare. Mainly because MACs closest solution to mandatory roaming profiles stores too much data that has to be transferred at login. 20 kids logging into a MAC all at once took about 30 minutes of the 45 minute class. The frustrating part was that MAC engineers couldn't figure this out. We were about to pack the Apple carts up and send them back (after 4 months and 3 failed attempts from egineers) when I discovered how much data from apps was held in the user's profile. I was able to work around it. But I was not impressed with Apples enterprise level support.
Joining the domain really wasn't a problem, but integrating MACs into a Windows AD environment and utilizing both MAC preferences and AD Group Policy - bleh.
And I had to configure WEP on the WAPs because MACs didn't play well with WPA.
I'll never again attempt to bring MACs into an AD Domain.
There's one problem with what people are saying about Pepsi not buying Coke and things like that in comparison: Apple and Microsoft aren't direct competitors. To be honest, no one is Apple's direct competitor. The only company that makes both their own hardware AND software in the computer, tablet, and smartphone industries is Apple (as far as I know, correct me if I'm wrong). Microsoft and Google could be called direct competitors, but Apple's in a league of its own in more ways than one.![]()
And in other news:
Ford stopped buying Toyotas for company cars.
Pepsi no longer stocks their vending machines with Coca-Cola.
Microsoft is a marketing company, not technology company.
It's nice to see that someone understands this policy.
It's only news to those who fail to understand business.
Windows 7 is great when compared to Windows Vista but it is the same operating system based on the crappy poorly constructed API that is win32...
From what I understand, the only thing wrong with Win32 is that it's a little long in the tooth these days, and could use a goodly bit of modernizing. Still, I don't think I've ever heard a real programmer call it crappy or poorly constructed before.