I just caught this on eWeek: “Microsoft: No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs”, by Peter Galli—August 7, 2006
“Microsoft has decided not to move forward with a version of Virtual PC for the Intel-based Macintosh, and will also be discontinuing support of Visual Basic scripting in the next version of Office for Mac, the company said.
“As Virtual [...]
TidBITS has an axcellent article reviewing what when know of 10
.5 Leopard—TidBITS: mac os X 10.5 Leopard Previewed at WWDC 2006
“First Issue Served by Our New System·Apple Releases Security Update 2006-004·More, Less, and No Information on Running Windows on a Mac·Wireless Driver Hack Could Target Macs and Windows·TypeIt4Me Returns Again, Again·AOL Drops Fees, Offers 5 [...]
From a Microsoft Mac Business Unit worker comes a behind-the-scene blog post titled Saying goodbye to Visual Basic
It starts like this: “Well, its been less than two days since the MacBU announced that Visual Basic is being removed from the next version of Mac Office. The news has created quite a firestorm on [...]
A great source of information on older (and I mean OLDER!) Mac models is available at The Pickle’s Low-End Mac FAQ
Which is “..proudly featuring a complete lack of JavaScript and full compatibility with those low resolution screens.”
A FAQ for facts, and just the facts…
Help to prevent the trade of stolen Macs: You can register your hardware as stolen in Second Hand Mac ‘Stolen hardware Registration’.
Check the serial number of the hardware before you buy. You should find it on the label, often under the computer or in the battery bay of laptops. You can get that number from [...]
Macintouch has improved the contents of its reports…
Thursday, August 10, 2006 Â 19:00 EDT: “We have now added Photoshop CS2 tests to our Mac Pro Preliminary Notes and Tests page, along with a Geekbench comparison between the Mac Pro, a dual-core G5 and a Dell 2.8GHz Pentium D (as well as Rosetta translation in [...]