{"id":643,"date":"2007-06-10T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T04:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/06\/10\/newsletter-393-preview-attention-mac-users-microsoft-makes-good-stuff-too\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T15:07:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T22:07:21","slug":"newsletter-393-preview-attention-mac-users-microsoft-makes-good-stuff-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/06\/newsletter-393-preview-attention-mac-users-microsoft-makes-good-stuff-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #393 Preview: Attention Mac Users: Microsoft Makes Good Stuff Too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In part, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just politics in play, but the eternal rivalry between Mac and PC users sometimes gets just a little too extreme. I mean, in a world where Bill Gates and Steve Jobs can get along, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d expect that Microsoft and Apple will, at times, play nicely together too. Indeed, Time magazine refers to Gates and Jobs as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153frenemies,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a newly-coined term that describes the situation, where the pair seems to have a close personal relationship, yet head companies that are, at times, fierce competitors.<\/p>\n<p>I try not to have a knee-jerk reaction to the Mac versus PC argument. While I have criticized Microsoft quite often for the things I think they do wrong, I actually regard computers as just tools to get the job done. Most times, this means that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll use my Mac. But there are times where Windows is surely up to the task, even if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only because there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no Mac version of a specific application. 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