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McNealy Warns Buyers (10/23/97)
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Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy once again took time to pursue his favorite hobby-- that of publicly blasting Microsoft for its various crimes against humanity. Apparently unsatisfied with only having sued Microsoft for breach of contract (you know, that whole "incompatible Java" hullabaloo), Scott threw in little oblique jabs while addressing a crowd of Sun customers, says a New.com story. "We aren't interested in global domination," he quipped.
Scott went on to denigrate both Microsoft's and Intel's partnering abilities, saying that they still "don't get it," while Sun can provide customers with everything they could ever need. More importantly, he warned listeners that Microsoft is a "dangerous partner," and that if they partnered with Microsoft by using Windows CE in their consumer electronics, eventually Microsoft would enter their market and steal their customers.
And, just for consistency's sake (he does this a lot, you know), he topped things off with the obligatory remarks about Microsoft products being difficult to use: "Anything more aggressive than changing a file name requires a reboot in Windows." Glad to see he's staying the course!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 10/23/97 episode: October 23, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)
Other scenes from that episode: 112: Knife Ist Ein Baumkopf? (10/23/97) The folks at Reality and the Macintosh Conspiracy have teamed up to debunk the supposed COS screenshots floating around the web. You may recall that COS is the "Dream OS" from Omega, a relatively unknown German development company who claims to have reverse-engineered a Mac OS 8-compatible, totally memory-protected, symmetrically multiprocessing, pre-emptively multitasking, B2-security certified clone of the Mac OS that is four times faster, runs in 4MB of RAM, only takes up 12MB of hard disk space, and will be downloadable over the web for $99-- written in under a year, with no development help from Apple, and ready to ship by November 13th. Done laughing yet?... 113: All Aboard the Express (10/23/97) MacOS Rumors has some nice little tidbits on Apple's new high-end line of computers, code-named PowerExpress and slated for release in early 1998 (hopefully at the January MacWorld Expo). They sound like some serious machines. Somewhat surprisingly to us, these new speed demons will not use the PPC 750 (commonly called the "Arthur") chip that will ship in next month's midrange Power Macintosh G3 series...
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