WOW, what’s that for?
It even links to your site, so, “Bill Gates” is that how you got here?

Apple will soon release Pong for Mac”OS” X…

I’m really a PC enthusiast, but I’ll soon purchase a product from “la firme à la pomme”: http://harelooms-online.com/spam_gallery/think_different.jpg

I apologize for that bad sense of humor, but I’m French (and it’s not my fault if I was born and live in France).

Fred the froggy.

While I agree that right now the site is pretty useless, at least it shows that Microsoft is renewing its commitment to the PC as a gaming platform. I don’t know if I entirely agree with PC gaming being “popular-enough” these days. The PC as a gaming platform, has been eroded by most new games being developed for multiple platforms at once. So first off, we end up with a game that’s a crappy port from a console. PC-only titles are pretty rare these days. Secondly, gamers see the same game on a console and say: “Why should I spend so much on a PC, when I can get a console for a few hundred bucks?”

And let’s not forget that Microsoft themselves have helped this erosion, up until now. They concentrated on the Xbox and Xbox 360 at the expense of the PC, for several years.

And the game publishers have been abandoning the PC platform in droves. Why? Because consoles are easier to develop for (everyone has exactly the same hardware), require less customer technical support, have less piracy, and there are financial incentives from the manufacturers.

The new Games for Windows initiative appears to help with at least two of these problems. Microsoft apparently provides development assistance and financial incentives, to developers who participate in Games for Windows. So hopefully, this effort will prevent further erosion of the market and bring some life back into PC gaming.

Kind of like when someone claims their IBM-designed processors are the fastest in the universe but then is forced to jump platforms a couple years later, at which point they announce their new Intel-designed processores are the fastest in the universe. Or a million other embellishments of the truth that Job routinely ejaculates at his cult gatherings.

MSFT has learned a great deal from its mistakes and some of that can be seen in the design of Vista. In hindsight, XP had some significant problems with it when it went out to manufacturing and it took two service packs to get some things right. MSFT looks upon those Apple ads as some friendly jabs by one company against another maybe MSFT deserves some of it. There is no denying that some MSFT customers had considerable issues with viruses under the XP security model.

Darren, there is no need to be a childish fanboy. The products of MSFT can stand or fail on their own merits without such hyperbole.

Linux is a good OS.. for business… and game servers…

Mac is a rival to Microsoft, but no match, in other word’s, Sac mucks…
But for some reason this site doesn’t work for me, anyone?