What PC to Buy If You Are Planning On a Vista Upgrade | Walt Mossberg

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What PC to Buy If You Are Planning On a Vista Upgrade | Walt Mossberg | Personal Technology

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E-mails reveals Microsoft’s reaction to Walt Mossberg column
D' Technology Weblog — ... The Oct. 13, 2005, installment of Walt Mossberg’s Personal Technology column in the Wall Street Journal was a detailed guide for people planning to buy personal computers in advance of Windows Vista’s launch. One paragraph in particular got Microsoft’s attention. “You also won’t have to worry about Vista if you buy one of Apple Computer’s Macintosh computers, which don’t run Windows,” Mossberg wrote. “Every mainstream consumer doing typical tasks should consider the Mac. Its operating system, called Tiger, is better and much ...

Microsoft saw Apple's anti-Vista campaign coming
AppleInsider — ... of Windows software engineer Padmanand Warrier. Troubled by a particular segment of the article, he fired off a link to the report to several of his colleagues, including then Windows group product manager Rajesh Srinivasan and development manager Richard Russell. "You won't have to worry about Vista if you buy one of Apple Computer's Macintosh computers, which don't run Windows," Mossberg wrote in the highlighted section. "Every mainstream consumer doing typical tasks should consider the Mac. Its operating system, called Tiger, is better and more secure than Windows XP, ...