http://www.osnews.com/story/20731/Microsoft_Moves_Macs_Closer_to_PC_Parity Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:53:52 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?342493 http://osnews.com/thread?342493 Now let's all join hands and say together:

MACS ARE PCS
PCS != COMPUTERS WITH WINDOWS

I have a PC, and it runs linux.

Edit: Also the link seems broken Edited 2009-01-06 17:56 UTC Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Knuckles) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?342494 http://osnews.com/thread?342494 404: Page not found Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (robojerk) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?342525 http://osnews.com/thread?342525 Good to see MS doing this kind of thing. Maybe this should have been done a while back, but still good to see... I like that it was coded in Cocoa too...

Also, yes, Mac's are PC's, and Linux runs on a PC (PC = Personal Computer), but like a lot of words/phrases in the English language, the original use and the use now can change. Sadly, if I say PC to most people, they don't think Linux or Mac. I need to say Linux Box/PC or Mac...

No biggy, I can live with that... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (thavith_osn) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?342542 http://osnews.com/thread?342542 Same here. It often bugs me because in my brain I think PC=Personal Computer, whereas everyone else thinks it means solely Windows, and I often have to clarify myself or just grin and bear it for the sake of not getting into a one-sided nerdy conversation that nobody else understands.

What can you do, though? I'm an English buff, so misused words bother me more than the average human being, but you can't expect everyone in the world to know everything we (meaning the more tech-savvy population) do about computers. Then we'd all be out of a job. Edited 2009-01-07 01:44 UTC Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (weildish) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?342570 http://osnews.com/thread?342570 Meh, it's the same argument as with Linux as a kernel and Linux as an OS. We can all tell from the context if people refer to the kernel or a distribution, so there's no harm done.

And you have to agree that the title "Microsoft Moves Apple PCs running Mac OS X Closer to PCs running Microsoft Windows Parity" sounds a bit too complicated. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pandronic) Comments