Posted on 08/25/2009 7:35:29 PM PDT by Star Traveler
I bookmarked both pages
Thanks
Until then, Macs come stock with Exchange support. Ironically, more Exchange support than Windows 7 built in. The reviews so far have said it works great although no one has tried it in a huge operation.
We’ve tried integrating MACs into a large Exchange enterprise, and it’s a long way from being a seamless proposition. We’ve also got a lot of people wanting to use iPhones. They seem to be a nice piece of work, but there are some security concerns. They seem to be quite easy to hack the passwords if lost or stolen, and in our situation that presents a potentially substantial legal liability.
Yuck. Shudder.
If I had to use outlook all the time, I'd just shoot myself.
How many other email progrems have let you be infected by viruses just by reading an email?
Have you considered a used computer? The P4 for $99 might do what you want.
Then put any savings towards a Mac :-)
I switched to an IMAC, last year, Ilove it. I run parallels, it’s great. My wife has a viao laptop, it takes forever for her to boot up, meanwhile I’m up and running in seconds!!
I use it for Web browsers. IE still doesn't render pages properly, and as much as I'l like to give IE the finger on principle, I don't want to kiss off the audience still using it.
Some companies have Windows-only in-house apps; taht can be done better with cross-platform Java or with something like Citrix, but a client-side virtual machine is a way to get Macs in the door and have that fight later.
I run an earlier version of Parellels and it is so easy to go from the mac side to the Windows side. I can run both OS’s at once and transfer files by drag and drop from one to the other.
I run XP on Parellels because my software for my embroidery machine is windows based.
Another MacMall customer here. We’ve bought 5 macs (since 1998) directly from them cheaper than we could get them from Apple. All of them still work and areused because of the software they have on them.
Mac OS X is Unix inside and Unix is not an acronym. Please don't call us "geeks". I've run multiuser, multitasking systems at home since 1985 starting with System V boxes. Before my Macbook Pro, the x86 systems I have owned ran Linux.
I care that:
I keep a fair distance away from Microsoft Windows. On the unfortunate occasions when I've tried to use it, I've always felt like either gouging my eyes out because of the eye-searing color contrast, or driving a screwdriver through my forehead because of the frustrating user interface, or both.
Sun had viable desktop graphics systems before there was ever a Microsoft Windows. They did great work in GUIs in the early to mid 80s. Unfortunately they have always been economically challenged when it came to price points and I suppose that's the main reason why they sold themselves to Oracle.
When Jobs was in exile he did the NeXT, a direct competitor to Sun on the desktop and with a similar architecture (Unix inside). NeXTStep, the NeXT user interface was later reborn as OS X.
There is a long history of GUIs on top of Unix (and its descendents) as an OS.
What kind of system will I buy my sons when they're old enough?
No brainer, at least for me.
That's the case where I work. Citrix has the advantage of running on Linux too.
I'm not sure why a program that appears designed to make its users look like idiots has captured so much market. I mean really, what's up with all the "XXX would like to recall the previous message" and multiple calendar invites?
Just say no!
How many other email progrems have let you be infected by viruses just by reading an email?
Bump.
(And make its users look like idiots to boot?)
Could it be that you might have a better idea if you based your assesment on something more the the most superficial and cursory observation of the product?
I thought he meant the old Military Airlift Command. :)
The foreign language support in OS X is great. I do German and French and the extra German characters like ö and ü (Option-U for umlaut, then type the letter that gets an umlaut) are much easier and more intuitive to do on a Mac than in Windows, same for French with the accents like é (same, but Option-E for accent egule).
Searching “os x japanese support” might surprise you.
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