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Posted on 03/03/2009 7:13:39 PM PST by prismsinc
Microsoft founder head Bill Gates has banned the use of products made by arch-rival Apple from his house, his wife has revealed.
But the blockade could backfire on Gates, 53, after Melinda admitted there are times she feels envious of her friends' iPhones.
She told Vogue magazine that the couple's three children Jennifer, 13, Rory, 10 and Phoebe, seven, are not allowed Apple products.
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Petty dontcha think.
Although their hardware engineering group certainly isn’t using MAC OS, I can tell you that with a high degree of certainty.
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1) What do they run for their OS?
2) What application do they run on that OS?
3) Why can’t MacOS run that application, if that’s what you said.
How about hubby showing his wife how much more fun it is to use Win Mobile phone over an Apple iPhone?
A Mac running Windows through Boot Camp IS a Windows machine... no problems with compatibility.
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“Melinda admitted there are times she feels envious of her friends’ iPhones.”
That could be the birth of a fantastic commercial.
They are both liberal but at least Jobs ripped the teachers union and told the Greenies to pound sand.
He certainly won't call his computers PC :-)
I can't believe the Bill let's his family have friends that have Apple products!
that cant be right windows7 is not done yet..
I wrote:
Although their hardware engineering group certainly isn’t using MAC OS, I can tell you that with a high degree of certainty.
Terpfen replied:
This is a nonsensical comment, one of the clumsiest attempts to bash OS X I’ve seen in a while.
Look — I dont’ want to get into some Mac/PC fanboy battle here, my intent wasn’t to bash an MAC OS as insufficient for life. People should use what they want and like. You can have the last word after this clarifying post. All the best to you.
I shouldn’t have used MSOffice as an example...here, let me clarify: “I doubt you’ll see a member of the Jobs family toting a Dell laptop running WindowsXP or carrying a Zune.” Does that help?
My comment re: Hardware Engineering is not a nonsensical comment, unless I wrote poorly. High-end EDA Software used for circuit design as done by and for Apple, both in-house and with partners such as FOXCONN, is not designed to run on MAC OS.
It wasn’t an intent to bash MAC OS. If you enjoy using it, great. In the EDA industry, MAC OS is all but nonexistent.
Sorry, I missed your reply. Companies who design complex ICs, FPGAs, ASICs, and PCBs are using at least some tools from Synopsys, Cadence, Magma Design Automation and Mentor Graphics. This means Windows for some things and Linux for others. In some cases, these tools can run the customer’s choice of Linux or Windows, but many are one-OS tools.
Software tools in this industry don’t run on MAC OS, and the complexity of the tools and risk of a mistake in manufacturing means engineers need to run them in the approved OS build only, not a “compatible” one.
For example, I’ve seen a complex IC-design application that had issues in an unsupported, but by all descriptions perfectly compatible, linux release package but ran fine in the officially supported linux package.
Just answering you for trivia’s sake. Apple can forever exist profitably and successfully despite not being used on an engineer’s desk.
You do know that a lot of EDA is written for UNIX?
OS X.5 is Leopard one of the three fully certified, POSIX® compliant UNIX™ operating systems.
EDA written for UNIX, LINUX and Windows will run quite nicely on a Mac.
I suspect that Apple IS using Macs to do their design work.
I again repeat: Windows running on a Mac in Boot Camp IS Windows... not "compatibles". You run the build of the Windows OS and it is that Windows OS.
Thank you.
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