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Weblog:   Microsoft Mac FUD, Phooey!
Subject:   Here we go again!
Date:   2002-07-22 18:27:21
From:   timoreilly
Response to: Here we go again!

No one said that MS has to stick with the Mac market. But it does seem to me that making an announcement on the eve of MacWorld that you're rethinking your support for the platform can't be anything but a calculated attempt to put a stick in Apple's spokes.


And as I tried to say in my article, I believe that Apple has been baiting Microsoft as well. This is far from one-sided. But it's still ugly, and I would rather see both sides trying to win users. While Apple's "switcher" campaign is a poke at Microsoft, it is a positive marketing statement -- "Choose our product" -- while the Microsoft message is purely negative. "Don't choose their product. Even if our stated lack of committment to the Mac market hurts our Mac products, it will hurt Apple more."