Replies

When I find that 88% of recent threads on a particular Microsoft topic have been jumped on by the "Get a Mac!" crew, that says to me that they have no business complaining about threads being "invaded".

Here is a rundown of just the last seven Windows Longhorn threads.

An Early Peek at Longhorn - 4/14/2005 - 30 comments.

Article refers to items in Longhorn looking suspiciously like OSX Tiger...
Comments referring to Apple/Mac/OSX in discussion only: #13, #14, #15, #20
No insults,
No "Get a Mac."

DOJ steps up Longhorn scrutiny - 1/26/2005 - 6 comments.

No comments referring to Apple/Mac/OSX.
No "Get a Mac."

Move over Windows XP take a look at Longhorn! :) 9/7/2004 - 42 comments.

Comments referring to Apple/Mac/OSX: #7, #13, #15, #19, #25.
One "Eat my dust, Bill G". #7 No insults,
1 "Get a Mac" comment. #15

Microsoft Revises Longhorn Graphics Requirements - 5/6/2004 - 19 comments.

Poster refers to OSX features that Longhorn is to emulate.
Comments referring to Apple/Mac/OSX: #1, #2, #7, #8, #12, #16, #18,
No insults,
No "Get a Mac," although thread tone is "been there, done that" for OSX

Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper - 5/4/2004 - 38 comments.

Comments referring to Apple/Mac/OSX: #34
Comment reports OSX runs fine on old 400MHz Mac.
No insults,
No "Get a Mac."

How Microsoft Is Clipping Longhorn - 4/9/2004 - 67 comments.

Comments about Longhorn features that already are in OSX.
Comments referring to Apple/Mac/OSX: #12, #13, #17, #18, #22, #32, #34, #36, #37, #40, #46, #47, #51, #52, #54, #58, #63.
3 (mild) insults to Mac users, #40, #46, #54
1 (mild) insult to Windows users, #17.
No "Get a Mac."

Longhorn Beta Delayed to 2005 [Windows XP successor delayed again] - 4/2/2004 - 100 comments.

Windows users comment that OSX is looking better and better in view of release Longhorn date slippage. About half of the comments mentioning Macs are from PC users considering switching. Mac users join in. Insults start later.
Comments referring to Apple/Mac/OSX: #1, #3, #5, #8, #11, #18, (#22), #30, #31, #32, #35, #41, #43, #46, #53, #55, #65, #69, #74, #75, #77, #80, #85, #87. #88, #90, #91, #93, #94, #95, #99, #100.
3 insults to Mac users, (#22) mild, #41 mild, #74
1 to Windows users,
#43 (moderate)
No "Get a Mac.

The last one, because of the large percentage (33%) of Mac references might be considered to have been hijacked, but the discussion was just that... discussion. It was started by Windows users noting the delays in shipping dates for Longhorn and the fact that OSX was out now and looking better and better to their eyes.

Compare those comments to Bush2000 or even your own, General_Re, in this thread... or almost any other Mac thread.

"Get a Mac!" is not intended as a literal quote of an actual post, obviously, but rather as shorthand for the predilection of the Apple contingent to jump onto unrelated threads, unbidden, in order to disrupt and hijack it. If you can't see that the system requirements of Longhorn haven't got a blessed thing to do with how well OS X runs on someone's crufty old G4, then I guess I'm never going to penetrate your delusions here.

Basically, you want a double standard, where if anyone chimes in about MS on an Apple thread, it's "invading", but if someone drags another thread off-topic with how great Apple is, why, that's just legitimate discussion. I think it's quite obvious to anyone who hasn't drunk the Kool Aid what's going on here. I don't really care if I persuade you, but every time you post it just makes my case that much stronger, that you guys simply can't take it when someone does to you what you do to them. Get over yourself, stop sniveling, and go post without the whining, for crying out loud. If you don't want outsiders posting on your precious Apple threads, go start your own Apple-only discussion board. Or stay off of other people's threads. But you are not free to interrupt others and then demand something in return that you haven't got the courtesy to give to others.