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Insanely Ripped Off (5/25/98)
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Speaking of Microsoft "borrowing" from Apple, this latest example is too surreal to be missed. Granted, once again, it's not actually Microsoft doing the borrowing, but it's still too bizarre to ignore. According to O'Grady's PowerPage, on the recent Weekend Edition Sunday broadcast on NPR, Scott Oaky referred to Microsoft's products as "insanely great." (Apparently you can hear this yourself via RealAudio, if you're so inclined.)
Now, any Macophile who doesn't live under a rock knows that the phrase "insanely great" is a Steve Jobs hallmark. Hearing Microsoft's products being referred to in that way is like Luke Skywalker joining the Dark Side of the Force-- it just doesn't logically resolve in the mind. Microsoft's products might be "tolerably bland" or "acceptably adequate," but we have a real problem with them being called "insanely great." Although, based on what little time we've used it, we have to concede that Word 98 comes pretty darn close, bloated as it may be...
Then again, there's always the possibility that access to Jobs' "insanely great" phrase was an unpublicized clause in last August's $150 million Microsoft-Apple deal. In fact, we're even starting to wonder if Bill Gates also got access to Steve's Reality Distortion Field® in that agreement, since Microsoft apologists are actually writing to us about Windows 98's up to 23% performance degradation over Windows 95 and saying that "speed isn't that important." C'mon, Steve, if Bill can persuade people to pay to go slower, surely you can successfully foist a floppyless Mac on the consumer market!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 5/25/98 episode: May 25, 1998: The recent Apple corporate tell-alls should make way-- here comes the Microsoft equivalent. Meanwhile, someone publicly refers to Microsoft's products by the Mac-specific phrase "insanely great," and Rhapsody for Intel appears to have died before it could reach v1.0...
Other scenes from that episode: 735: I Had Bill Gates' Baby (5/25/98) Stand back, folks, because Apple's not the only company starring in tawdry tell-all books these days. Barbarians Led By Bill Gates is a new book by former Microsoft developer Marlin Eller, who recounts the company's rise to power over the course of the thirteen years he worked there... 737: Rhapsody: Intel Outside (5/25/98) Following Rhapsody's WWDC de-emphasis as the Mac's future (in favor of Mac OS X), questions have arisen as to the fate of Rhapsody for Intel, Apple's next-generation server OS for standard x86-based iron...
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