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URL where it was found: http://www.cnet.com/windows-vista.html

This is about the funniest web ad I’ve ever seen. This is one of the latest Apple Inc. ads that rubs Mac OS X Leopard success in Microsoft’s face. Many OEMs/PC manufactures have recently start offering customers the choice of Windows XP or Windows Vista pre-installed on their new computer.

The irony about this ad is the ad program on CNET must of pickup on the keyword Vista and is now running the ad on CNET’s main Microsoft Windows Vista main page.

I just bought the new mac mini 2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 1GB stock RAM. Its a very nice machine fast and responsive. The thing I really love about the new macs with Intels is the freedom to test a Windows only browser at near native speeds. I hated Virtual PC but thats the only way I could test my website designs but now Mac Intel with Parallels software its so easy and fast. Even with Firefox and Safari gaining market share, the majority of web surfers still use Windows with Internet Explorer and developers / designers should always thoroughly test this platform.

Article from Ajaxian » “Ajax is now an Endangered Species”

Dare Obasanjo, of Microsoft, is an obvious fan of Silverlight, and has a piece on how Ajax is now an Endangered Species…

…Flash has been around for a long time, yet Ajax became en vogue a couple of years ago. It wasn’t because it could pull off richer effects than Flash. In many ways Flash is superior (storage, access to webcam, graphics, browser quirk issues), but it didn’t have some of the webby features that we love. It is a plugin. Silverlight is a plugin. Silverlight doesn’t have the install base of Flash. It doesn’t run on Linux (more…)

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Again another sign that Bill Gates’ is either in self-denial or manipulating Windows users into thinking most of Vista’s new features are original and innovative. An Apple stole there ideas from pre-release longhorn versions (more…)

This video is pretty funny if your a Mac person. CNN Reporter puts Microsoft’s Founder Bill Gates on the hot seat and ask if they where trying to copy Apple Computers’ Mac OS X operating system. He resonpsed, with a studding, that they way ahead on many features like (more…)

Looks Like problems at Redmond. New Vista Incompatible feature for Microsoft SQL Server.

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The Mono framework is an open source version of Microsoft .NET client and server application framework for Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. The project is sponsored by Novell and has commercial support.

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