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Journalists Cover Microsoft, Using Macs

It’s not an easy time for Microsoft — with Steve Ballmer having to field questions about being “buffoons” and an “evil empire”  at the shareholder’s meeting (.doc) — so when they get together “the world’s most influential technology pundits and online writers” (nb: we weren’t invited) for Mobius to discuss super-secret mobile tech you’d think [...]

Guide To Black Friday Apple Bargains: Cheap MacBooks, iPods and Accessories Galore

Here’s a guide for finding the best bargains on Apple-related gear during the infamous Black Friday sales on November 27. We’ve compiled a comprehensive list of gear from leaked photos of sales flyers and descriptions of sales.
The bargains include a 2.26 GHz MacBook + $150 gift card at Best Buy for $999.99 ; a 32GB [...]

Review: Voices Is Today’s Best Thing Ever, Grab It Now While It’s Cheap

New on the App Store is Voices from the clever folk at Tap Tap Tap. You can guess what it does.

Open it up, pick a silly voice. Helium is pretty silly. A microphone appears and the app even clears your throat for you (try it, you’ll see what I mean). Now speak your brains, and [...]

Review: Sony Walkman S540 Series Video MP3 Player

Press releases, you will hardly be surprised to hear, are rarely very interesting. But one arrived in my inbox a couple of weeks ago that made me double-take.
“Sony’s S Series Walkman,” it chattered, “is a serious challenger to the iPod Nano.” Gosh, really? Perhaps the Cult had better have a look at one, then, despite [...]

Windows Machines Represented in Leopard With Blue Screen of Death

Oh, Apple. You shouldn’t have. It’s far too accurate (discovered by David R. Perek)

Via Digg.

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16 comments

    That’s not surprising at all…

    Bwahahahahahaha! Never say that the programmers at Apple don’t have a sense of humor.

    [...] Browsing a network full of PCs on a Mac running Leopard? This is what you see. A well-deserved poke at Microsoft from Apple. Found via CultOfMac.Com [...]

    @JT. Uh…who was saying that exactly?

    [...] Windows Machines Represented in Leopard With Blue Screen of Death – apple left “the blue screen of death” easter egg in leopard. “Oh, Apple. You shouldn’t have. It’s far too accurate” [via waxy] [...]

    OMG. i work in a call center for apple (plenty blue screens actualy on leopard hahahahha) but that aside this is going to be awesome when i tell them about this. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, i really gotta find a windows machine and show them this :) . thanks guys.

    [...] particolare scherzoso, che era presente nelle versioni in sviluppo, in quella definitiva. [via Cult of Mac] PUBBLICITÀ PUBBLICITÀ (nessun voto) 0 [...]

    Don’t worry Uncle Steve, we still love you, you adorable ape.

    Joe
    info@steamteam.ca

    [...] Apple left a Blue Screen of Death Easter Egg in the final release of Leopard, which was released yes…. Bad Apple! [...]

    [...] Windows machines represented in Leopard with BSOD. Brilliant. © 1999-2007 Justin Blanton (e-mail)                    e v e r y t h i n g i s r e l a t i v e                    In partnership with [...]

    I thought it was a Joke until I saw my friends computer on their home network.

    [...] quella schermata blu che accompagna ogni errore di sistema dei sistemi operativi Microsoft. [via Cult of Mac] Converti in [...]

    This only applies to machines sharing with SMB, right?

    The CRT display is also funny. It looks generically antique.

    When Jobs shows a Windows screen in one of his presentations, it’s always running Solitaire. That would have worked also. They could change to that in 10.5.1 to tone it down a notch and this would still be a classic BSOD appearance.

    The Leopard icons are about the same resolution as a real BSOD, that’s why you can read the BSOD text in the Leopard icon.

    Although I’ve made my livelihood with Windows for many years, I would have pretty much laughed my ass off at this.

    In, say, 1998.

    How traditionally snide and unnecessary. How uncharacteristically out-of-touch.

    [...] 18 November 2007 at 1:06 pm (Photo of The Day) Browsing a network full of PCs on a Mac running Leopard? This is what you see. A well-deserved poke at Microsoft from Apple. Found via CultOfMac.Com [...]

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