ilamont/os x

From the page: "Deep-discount 'Crazy Eddie' deals from Microsoft Corp. are helping lift U.S. retail sales of the aging Mac Office applications suite this Christmas season, according to a market research group. That strategy is overcoming potential customer procrastination due to the delayed arrival of the upgraded Office 2008 for the Mac. It's also a challenge to Apple Inc.'s revitalized desktop-suite package, iWork.

The number of copies of Office for the Mac sold during the week of Nov. 18-24 -- which includes the day after Thanksgiving, aka 'Black Friday' -- was up 235% from 2006, according to data from the NPD Group Inc.

That's despite the advanced age of Office 2004 for the Mac, which was released in May of that year."

From the page: "Gottheil's take on the Leopard release came amid speculation that filled Apple-related sites, blogs and message forums about the meaning of multiple beta builds reaching testers last week. The AppleInsider Web site, for example, noted Saturday that testers received two builds of Leopard, the second hard on the heels of the first. In the past, as Apple has neared marking its code as ready to duplicate, several builds have been pushed to beta testers."

From the page: "More than a year after claiming to have found a way to take over a Macintosh computer using a flaw in the system's wireless card, David Maynor has published details of his exploit.

The details were included in a paper published in the September issue of Uninformed.org, an online hacking magazine. The lengthy paper describes how to run unauthorized software on a Macintosh by taking advantage of a flaw in Apple's AirPort wireless drivers."

From the page: "For network admins, the Macintosh has always been the purview of advertising agencies, entertainment companies, educators and home computer users. Mac OS X is merely a minor support issue in a Microsoft-dominated organization."

From the page: "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is famous for a crazy video in which he yells, "I...love...this...company." With Apple, it's the customers who shout that.

It's no accident, and it's not a passing phenomenon. Apple knows something that other companies don't. Here are the eight secrets that make Apple the best company in the industry."

From the page: "Paul Venezia bamboozled me into buying a MacBook Pro back in January, and I've been using it semi-daily ever since. And yeah, overall, I've been pretty happy. Of course, the only reason I was willing to buy one at all was because Parallels made it so easy to run Windows. But while my initial usage ratio was 85% Parallels, 15% OS X, over the past six months, that's changed dramatically to 45% Parallels, 55% OS X. Yup, the Orchard does slowly assimilate you."

Summary of blog reaction to the August 2007 Apple announcement relating to new iMacs, iWork, and iLife.

Blog reaction to the Apple/Sun dispute over ZFS