adoptive step-spawn of Satan

Here's my favourite comment that was posted over at Mac Mojo this week:

It really helps to know that while Microsoft is *as a whole* may be the evil spawn of Satan, there are parts of Microsoft that are at worst merely the adoptive step-spawn of Satan.

Heh. I think that's a comment that our PR folks are never going to run with.

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 15, 2006
  Oh, I dunno:
  
  "Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit: We're only 40% as evil as the rest of Microsoft!"
  
  "Office 2004: Works Great! Less Evil!"
  
  "Microsoft Entourage 2004: Keeps the evil off your Mac, and on Exchange, where it belongs!"
  
  "The Microsoft Mac BU: Because sometimes, you only need a lesser evil"
  
  Try the veal, I'll be here all week.
• Anonymous
  September 15, 2006
  Just in case you were wondering why John is a sysadmin instead of a marketing guy ...
• Anonymous
  September 15, 2006
  I don't know... "Office:mac The Less Evil version" sounds good to me.
  
  However, I don't think there was ever much doubt about John, and very little doubt why I'm not in marketing either.
• Anonymous
  September 15, 2006
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• Anonymous
  September 15, 2006
  Can I do my evil empire 666 thing now Nadyne?
• Anonymous
  September 16, 2006
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• Anonymous
  September 16, 2006
  No, that's the dark blue lot, we're light blue ;)
• Anonymous
  September 16, 2006
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• Anonymous
  September 18, 2006
  http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2056
  
  Any comments?
  
  Even Adobe has their act together with a working PS on Intel.
• Anonymous
  September 18, 2006
  Oh, I don't know. Remind me, what was BBEdit's motto? ;)
• Anonymous
  September 18, 2006
  We announced at WWDC that we're 100% on Xcode.  Adobe's announcement is more recent than that.  We're happy to welcome them to the exCodeWarrior party.
  http://www.cafepress.com/excode
• Anonymous
  September 18, 2006
  http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/live_tv.html
• Anonymous
  September 18, 2006
  Is there a particular reason you're spamming my blog with random links?
• Anonymous
  September 18, 2006
  Hey John...don't forget to tip your waitress!
• Anonymous
  September 18, 2006
  Even Adobe has their act together with a working PS on Intel.
  
  Um...CS3 hasn't shipped yet.
  
  Adobe's announcement is more recent than that
  
  Um...
  
  http://www.forbes.com/2006/03/23/adobe-chizen-earnings_cz_dal_0324adobe.html Creative Suite 3 will be introduced in the second quarter of 2007.
  
  3/23/06 is before WWDC, and a release date of Q2 2007 as well as prior to the projected release of Mac Office 12 in Q3 2007, no? Or were you referring to something else?
  
  Granted, this does not explicitly state "Hey! We're on XCode now!"...but one would assume a release date that's closer in means being somewhat further along. I sure would want to be done with compiler switchovers well BEFORE I announced feature complete or started handing out betas. :)
  
  Also... I find it fascinating that Mary Starman's giving interviews to reporters, but didn't bother posting anything on Mac Mojo about this... aand the two posts in the past week there are basically "Hey! These are neat links for you!". I don't think you guys are getting the hang of this blogging thing quite yet- you all missed an opportunity. You could have BROKEN news on a team blog.
• Anonymous
  September 18, 2006
  You're right, we're still gettin' the hang of it.  :)