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Nai no Kami · Jan 18, 2006, 06:04 PM

Of course, I'm not serious, but look at the picture I found by accident at the Microsoft site:

xi_hyperon · 06:18 PM

Cool, the forums are fudged again. Can't see original post.

[edit: now I can see it. wtf?]

xi_hyperon · Jan 18, 2006, 06:10 PM

dp.

turtle777 · Jan 18, 2006, 06:59 PM

Newsflash: M$ is using stock pictures for their web design.

Nai no Kami · Jan 18, 2006, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

Newsflash: M$ is using stock pictures for their web design.

That's not what I was questioning or observing, but the decission to use that picture. It is irrelevant if it is a stock picture or if they shot it; they dedided to use it. And it is a computer related company with a product of one of it's strongest competitors. It is not kile they put a fake Ming Dynasty vase on the heading. Capisce?

I rather prefer to think that you are not suggesting that the only picture of a notebook under an arm was that with the iBook.

rickey939 · Jan 18, 2006, 07:48 PM

Another Mac in a M$ picture? It's a normal thing.

Atomic Rooster · Jan 18, 2006, 08:09 PM

So how would buying windows for a mac be piracy???

11011001 · Jan 18, 2006, 09:05 PM

Is that actually a mac? Do the iBooks have two side-by-side USB ports?

tooki · Jan 18, 2006, 09:21 PM

Yes, it's an iBook. iBooks have all the ports on one side, except for power, which is on the other.

But yeah, this is non-news: MS has used stock photos of Macs repeatedly.

tooki

bookofjames · Jan 19, 2006, 01:28 AM

looks more like a Dell. seems to be 2 colors - white on top and an off-white for the lower half.

greenamp · Jan 19, 2006, 01:31 AM

Originally Posted by bookofjames

looks more like a Dell. seems to be 2 colors - white on top and an off-white for the lower half.

Ever seen an iBook there cappy?

tooki · Jan 19, 2006, 01:35 AM

http://images.apple.com/ibook/galler..._side_2005.jpg

MS just flipped the image in photoshop.

tooki

euchomai · Jan 19, 2006, 01:53 AM

Originally Posted by bookofjames

looks more like a Dell. seems to be 2 colors - white on top and an off-white for the lower half.

what?

TETENAL · Jan 19, 2006, 01:54 AM

Originally Posted by tooki

MS just flipped the image in photoshop.

Or Paint.

And I assume Microsoft has Intel Macs by now already, so they are no longer "assuming" whether they boot Windows, they know it.

Weyland-Yutani · Jan 19, 2006, 05:39 AM

I'm sure they already know already. Microsoft has a notorious history of being able to acquire prototype Macs from Apple since the very beginning. Why stop a good trend now?

Foto graciosa Nai no Kami

cheers

W-Y

JoshuaZ · Jan 19, 2006, 07:04 AM

Or maybe their advertising company just isn't in touch with the world.

Nai no Kami · Jan 19, 2006, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by Weyland-Yutani

Foto graciosa Nai no Kami

cheers

W-Y

Gracias, mi amigo. Ese era el propósito de todo. Cada vez encuentro más motivos para no cambiar mi signature...

Millennium · Jan 19, 2006, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster

So how would buying windows for a mac be piracy???

It wouldn't, since Microsoft does not use its license to restrict what machines you can run Windows on. They do have a nasty habit of assuming that if you buy a Windows-compatible machine without Windows then you "obviously" intend to pirate Windows for it, though.

Interestingly enough, however, the reverse is not true. Apple's license agreement specifically says that you can only run OSX on Apple-branded hardware, so buying OSX for a non-Apple computer would technically be piracy, even if you bought the software legitimately. Yes, this is stupid, but unless Apple changes its licensing terms -and I doubt they will- then technically it's the reality.

turtle777 · Jan 19, 2006, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by Nai no Kami

It is irrelevant if it is a stock picture or if they shot it; they dedided to use it. And it is a computer related company with a product of one of it's strongest competitors.

It's their webdesign department that decided to use it. Well, guess what computers the design and marketing departments are using to produce their promotional material ?

Bill Gates and the monkey do NOT micro-manage on THAT level. Otherwise, yeah, it wouldn't be there.

TETENAL · Jan 19, 2006, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by Millennium

Apple's license agreement specifically says that you can only run OSX on Apple-branded hardware, so buying OSX for a non-Apple computer would technically be piracy, even if you bought the software legitimately.

This is legally not enforceable.

turtle777 · Jan 19, 2006, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by Millennium

so buying OSX for a non-Apple computer would technically be piracy, even if you bought the software legitimately.

First, the act of BUYING can NEVER be piracy.
Second, I doubt that rhis is piracy in a technical sense. I would think of it more of a license agreement violation. The question still stands if this is legal, and enforcable.