Boy, if you thought Steve Job’s response was bad, take a look at how Creative is handling this.
I found this through Digg which eventually led me to this.
Sigh. I had held Creative in high esteem.
And this whole incident just made me glad that I moved to a Mac.
Mozilla CEO John Lilly says in his blog that it is “wrong.”
It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that’s bad — not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web.
Joe Wilcox of Microsoft Watch describes the Apple Updater as a “Trojan Horse.”
Personally, I tend to agree with them. It’s mighty arrogant of Apple to push Safari to Windows users and package it as an “update.” True, the user has a choice to “uncheck” the selection box. But it’s still misleading.
Notice that Apple Updater terms it as an “update,” even if the user didn’t have Safari originally installed. Notice what the installer says: Select the items you wish to update. I don’t know about you, but when someone says “update,” I generally take it that some previous version exists.
Looks like the Vista Service Pack 1 is incompatible with certain Intel chipsets.
And that is one of the reasons why I switched to a Mac. I don’t want to spend too much time wondering if a Microsoft-certified update would cause my computer to be unstable. On my Mac, I have kept my system up-to-date. And I have not experienced any major problems.
At first it appears to be a tough choice. How does one decide between both virtualization softwares?
AppleInsider offers the following recommendation:
Using a MacBook, MacBook Pro, and a Mac Pro tower as its comparison systems, MacTech finds that Parallels Desktop is generally faster than VMware Fusion in common networking and office tasks when using Windows XP. When switching to Vista, however, Fusion handles the performance hit more gracefully and drops by an average of 32 percent across the three systems versus a steeper 85 percent for Parallels.Surprisingly, either can be slightly faster than running Windows through the native Boot Camp mode for some of these particular tasks, the publication says. Parallels earns additional recommendations for those who depend on a tight link between Mac OS X and Windows, though VMware’s solution may be better for Windows software that depends on multiple cores.
The funny thing is: I’ve been running less and less Windows applications ever since I switched to a Mac. I admit that Boot Camp was the tipping point for me to switch. Boot Camp provided me a parachute in case I needed to run Windows. But I found myself using it very infrequent. Now that I have upgraded to Leopard, I have even delayed installing Boot Camp simply out of pure laziness.
According to Apple, Boot Camp Beta 1.2 or earlier has expired on September 30, 2007. To continue using Boot Camp, you’ll need to upgrade to 1.4 or wait until Leopard arrives this month.
So today I tried booting to Windows. Everything still looks ok. I also tried launching Windows using Parallels and it still functions. But when I tried launching Boot Camp Assistant, a pop-up appeared reminding me that my license has expired.
