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More Macs in Microsoft (12/9/97)
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Being collectors of Mac sightings in "unlikely scenarios," we're beholden to faithful viewer Matt Garland, who noticed that Microsoft's recent web page touting their new BackOffice Server 4.0, included a very distinct Mac mouse in the accompanying graphic. (Microsoft's pages are browser-dependent. For those of us not running IE 4.0, Matt has kindly reproduced the graphic here.)

Needless to say, Backoffice doesn't exist for the Mac; it's a Windows NT server suite. But this isn't the first time we've seen evidence of Macs among Microsoft's web graphics designers... Remember all those animated GIFs that were stamped as being made with GIFBuilder? That's a Mac-only product.

If you happen to spot any similar evidence of subversive Mac infiltration into unlikely places, please drop us a line. Yes, we realize that it implies nothing more than the Mac's presence in the content creation/graphics realm, but we still get a kick out of such things. ;-)

 
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From the writer/creator of AtAT, a Pandemic Dad Joke taken WAYYYYYY too far

 

The above scene was taken from the 12/9/97 episode:

December 9, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 253: Ouch! Yet More Red Ink (12/9/97)   Think of it this way-- at least red's a festive holiday color. Yup, Apple's 10-K filing with the SEC last Friday predicted poor sales and revenue through at least March, implying that the red river of loss will rage on through Q2 of 1998...

  • 254: Ask the Oracle... (12/9/97)   Despite troublesome side-effects of his pain medication, Mac OS Rumors' Ryan Meader refuses to disappoint. Rumors of an Apple/Oracle alliance are still struggling tiredly down the pike. At this point, we've heard this too often not to consider it true...

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