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15 Jul 2025 07:34:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Daily WTF [again]  
From: Eero Ahonen
Date: 13 Feb 2008 12:14:20
Message: <47b3256c$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> 
> Most LOL-inducing moments: Standing in PC World and looking at the "Why
> Mac?" sticker on the shelf.
> 
> "#7: It runs Micro$oft Office."

Yep. Linux, *BSD, Irix, AIX and Solaris doesn't.

To be fair, I haven't tried MSO-over-Wine, but...

> Uh, dude, isn't the whole *point* of a Mac to get *away* from M$
> products? :-P

It's one point - and works here too (Win+MSO is more MS than OSX+MSO).

> Anyway, whatever. I doubt running highly compute-intensive applications
> in Parallels is a good idea...

Possibly, I haven't tested Parallels actually. Over Xen
compute-intensive applications work nicely.

>> No, you'll first need to find out what's it like and then decide if it's
>> what you'll want.
> 
> Heh. Well. No obvious way to do that...

You find that Apple store again and start clicking. ;)

-- 
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
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