Microsoft’s Norwegian Rep Demos Vista on a Mac
Friday, February 9th, 2007
I couldn’t understand everything they were saying…but between the images and the words I picked up enough that I got the gist. A Vista demo on a Mac by a Microsoft rep….How ironic!
Especially in light of this article in Newsweek. For maximum entertainment value, read the hundreds of comments.
Apparently the Mac they used for the demo didn’t need any surgery to run the new Microsoft OS. (The one in the demo looked like an iMac. Maybe I should try and download Vista to my iMac and see if it will run.) Perhaps that should be Microsoft’s new strategy. Just run Vista on a Mac.
Note: I have both a Mac and PC. In fact because I’m vegged out on my couch at the moment, I am writing this post on my Dell laptop running XP. But…if I need a screen shot of a video stream (like for this post) I have to go to my Mac at the desk. You ever try and get a screen grab on your PC from a video stream and then try to crop it? What a pain in the ass. The Mac seems to understand that what you want from a screen grab is just a simple flat image so it creates a png file and just dumps it on the desktop (plus it lets you select which part of the screen you want)… whereas the PC screen grab 1) lets you only select from the active window or the whole desktop, 2) requires you to go into another program and paste the image… and 3) then if you need to crop a screen grab from a video stream…forget it you can’t. I’m sure there’s a way or some piece of software I can download, but I’ve tried multiple ways with no luck. I was tired of wasting time, so I gave up and just started using my Mac for screen grabs of streams — it’s a hell of a lot easier and faster. Even if it means I have to get up off the couch.
