Microsoft: We're not "cool enough" for Mac OS X

[afusion]

Photosynth is a technology Microsoft has designed to create 3-D "worlds" with your photos. This technology is definitely cool, and we actually would like to see it come to the Mac, but the way they worded the install page just makes us laugh. Meanwhile, VMware Fusion's Pete Kazanjy told us that the warning about Photosynth not working in a virtual machine isn't quite right; he got it running just fine in Fusion 2 Beta 2, and has the video to prove it.

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Like it or not I personally got a good chuckle out of this

I could care less about the OS wars for all that matters..

[-Hiroshi-]

Well OS X is a cool OS, despite the OP's apparent fanboyism.

[zhangm Supervisor]

Sorry to nitpick, but "cool" is for 12-year olds, and results in contrivances like this:

After you pass puberty, elegance becomes more important, and there are many ways to achieve that.

[»X«]

Cool!

[crazzy88ss]

saw it on digg; thought it was super lame.

[Simon Veteran]

At least they're looking at releasing a Mac version. Makes me happy.

[Hurmoth]

Pretty cool. At least Microsoft can poke fun at themselves. When a company (or a person for that matter) can do that, I have more respect for them.

[suicide_pact]

Didn't he need to be running OS X in order to get that error message? If so, then it's not quite fan-boyism. BTW-I run both Leopard & XP Pro, so I'm not advocating one over the other.

[Luis.A]

NICE ONE! About time microsoft took themselves a little more light heartedly.

[Marshalus Veteran]

Meanwhile, VMware Fusion's Pete Kazanjy told us that the warning about Photosynth not working in a virtual machine isn't quite right; he got it running just fine in Fusion 2 Beta 2, and has the video to prove it.

Microsoft really doesn't support running any Microsoft operating system or software package in a virtual environment that isn't one they created.

[Avatar Viper]

haha easteregg...

[what]

Guess I won't be using Photosynth for a while then... whatever it is.

[instant.human]

i think its pathetic... its like that "we dont want to be cool"-thing... i dont know.

you know its like those guys at school who always say "aww, no, im not cool enough", hoping someone with a heart of gold says "no way, you are cool, come play with us."...

but then again i couldnt care less. ;)

[MentalDisturb.]

i think its pathetic... its like that "we dont want to be cool"-thing... i dont know.

you know its like those guys at school who always say "aww, no, im not cool enough", hoping someone with a heart of gold says "no way, you are cool, come play with us."...

but then again i couldnt care less. ;)

I think the usage of "cool" here, has more to do with the "I'm a mac, I'm a PC"-ads than anything else. Plus, it's still in development; it's just some dev trying to be witty. It'll get pulled in no time, as soon as the news gets in the open. (the joke I mean, not the whole project).

Still made me laugh tho. :)

[instant.human]

^i know, i know... but i still think its pretty lame... ;)

im happy though they are developing an osx version of photosynth, been waiting for it since the TED-talk...

[markwolfe Veteran]

Pretty cool. At least Microsoft can poke fun at themselves. When a company (or a person for that matter) can do that, I have more respect for them.

Agreed. A sense of humor is a good thing.

By the way, I get the same "cool" message on Linux, even down to the "as soon as we have a Mac version ready..." message. :ermm:

[Sethos]

By the way, I get the same "cool" message on Linux, even down to the "as soon as we have a Mac version ready..." message. :ermm:

They didn't expect any of the 4 linux users to try it :laugh: ( Kidding! )

But as said, I love a company who can poke fun at themselves, kudos.

[acies]

Ha, funny. I find the replies also funny. People really dig deep into the definition of cool and whether Microsoft should have used it. Relax it's just a little joke.

[tsupersonic]

Pretty cool. At least Microsoft can poke fun at themselves. When a company (or a person for that matter) can do that, I have more respect for them.

agreed.

[ambushed]

i think its pathetic... its like that "we dont want to be cool"-thing... i dont know.

you know its like those guys at school who always say "aww, no, im not cool enough", hoping someone with a heart of gold says "no way, you are cool, come play with us."...

but then again i couldnt care less. ;)

I don't think ive ever seen or heard of the "Im not cool enough" jist being said due to a lack of self-confidence in my life (outside of movies. School of Rock comes to mind). 99 times out of 100 it's a tongue in cheek laughing at yourself thing. Which is what this is. Lighten up.

No problem with it.

[Cormier6083]

I already posted this. :wacko:

[Slimy]

Microsoft really doesn't support running any Microsoft operating system or software package in a virtual environment that isn't one they created.

I'm pretty sure they just changed their stance on that recently ;)

[DreadBoat89]

microsoft has shown some humility, can apple?

(this may come out wrong to some people depend on where their biases)

[afusion]

I already posted this. :wacko:

In your dreams? :blink:

[Brandon Live Veteran]

I read it as some pretty funny sarcasm, but that's just me :)