(On my XP machine)
Gets updated at least monthly.
But of course. Seemingly every other wednesday...except when something particularly critical comes through (all five nights this week).
Are double posts allowed?
Apparently, it's only acceptable if you're doing it to troll the forum or defend Windows/Android from the big-bad Apple "fanboys".
Minimizing the meta-discussion, double-posting is indirectly allowed when it is the result of the Moderators cutting out a bunch of unproductive posts (that's where my 'double' on this thread came from yesterday). Unfortunately, what did get passed by from that recent intervention was a "make lemonaid" opportunity to use a "Tiffany Tax" analogy to illustrate the fallacies in the classical "Apple Tax" recurring topic. Bottom line here is that product differentiations always exist, as well as variation in consumer perceptions & prioritizations thereof, which lead to a YMMV on their relative worth.
Thank you for that. That is exactly what I said in my first post. I admit the computer illiterate part was harsh. But that is what I said in my first post.
+1 to you for good taste.
I, too, would argue that in some instances, Windows or Linux makes more sense for some folks due to their circumstances. However, those instances are rare in my experience.
Let's agree to disagree and instead go...
IMO, what's a pretty clear line is that Apple really isn't ready for Enterprise in comparison to the ecosystem that Microsoft & 3rd Parties have built up around Windows.
Of course, one can also look at the still very high retention rate for XP and conclude that Microsoft still has some work to do too.
What this News Topic ('PC vs Mac' website) really is about is not that Business/Enterprise segment, but is representative of competition in the home consumer segment. We can recognize that this is where Apple's focus is, and this website is Microsoft responding to their erosion of influence (and sales) in that segment.
And with the recent news of seemingly huge percentages of college freshmen going off to school with Macs under their arms, the long term business implications of this for what the future home marketplace is going to look like in ~5 years is not particularly an optimistic one for Microsoft. Expect this to be merely the first response of MS in trying to defend their sales in this market segment.
Of course, there's always more factors to consider. For example, with the increasing capability of internet-savvy consumers, they're less likely to simplistically accept just a brand's marketing pitch and do their own research. As such, when the pitch contains slants (selective truths, etc), there will eventually be a threshhold crossed (YMMV as to exactly where) where the consumer will be turned off by the marketing spin and effectively be driven away from what they likely consider is an "untrustworthy" corporation...which all means that the marketing approach backfired. There's various means to minimize this marketing downside risk, including saying less than your competitor (fewer opportunities to screw up or alienate, etc)...examples can be found in local politics (elections are coming soon in the USA).
-hh
