Microsoft to Apple: Happy Birthday!

Guess MS is now kicking themselves for letting Gatordae grab the perfect TV spot for Mac Windows XP ...

"Is It In You?"

Happy Birthday Apple! Thanks for bringing class, style, power, reliability and fun to the world. Who knows what I'd be doing if you didn't?

"...it's an obvious (though often unstated) fact that interest in the Mac OS would plummet dramatically if Microsoft stopped developing Office for the Mac."

This is overstated not often unstated. It's also not a fact at all. It's an opinion and NOTHING more. Show me some cold hard numbers before you start turning speculation into "fact."

"...that infusion of cash a few years back...."

A few years back? Wasn't that eight years ago? That a lot more than a "few." Somebody else already pointed out that the cash was a relatively small amount that had little effect on Apple as a business.

They got the font wrong. : ^ _

And what about the release of Office in universal binaries? Any date?

I love that microsoft's idea of a party involves a mirror ball from the 70's.....

I bet the boys in redmond really know how to letloose.....

ecne, the TUAW post links directly to a page that is intended to be opened in a popup window. When you click on it, it calls the well-known window.close() method, which for security reasons only works when called from a window that was itself generated using the window.open() method -- that is, a popup window. If you go to http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ and follow the "birthday card" link from there to view it in context, it works just fine.

They say "Rock on" but show a photo of a disco ball. And they wonder why they can't sell music.

The obligatory comment about Microsoft's investment in Apple:

MSFT bought $150 million dollars of non-voting stock as a show of good faith. It had no material impact on Apple's viability as a business.

After the 5-year holding period, MSFT sold the stock and made a substantial profit, since Apple stock had appreciated considerably. In the long run, MSFT got more out of the investment than Apple did.

buggy. click on that image is supposed to close the window and present us normal MBU page (using javascript link, indeed), but it doesn't work. what a bitter irony.