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Confirmed: Apple will try to SPOIL Microsoft 9/9 product launches

Sep. 2, 2008 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

Can you believe the audacity of this company? Apple is actually going to try and take attention away from two Microsoft product launches, one for a blue laser mouse, and one for Windows Live Video Messages, by actually hosting a special product launch event on the EXACT SAME DAY!!! Wrapped in shrouds of doubt and uncertainty, what Apple's planning is anybody's guess.

Yeah, that's what this blog would be like if I was a partisan loser. :)

Anyhoo, it looks like Apple is having an iPod event on September 9. I just hope they get some press, given what Microsoft's already planned.

Discuss this Article 16

WebGuy3000
on Sep 2, 2008
There's a line from one of the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary that we often quote in our household: "First time funny, second time silly, third time spanking."
gorath
on Sep 2, 2008
lol
Anthony Cook
on Sep 2, 2008
Thats harsh :D I hope Microsoft get all the attention they deserve. Apple should stop being so childish.....still it doesn't top the networking icon for a windows PC in Leopard.
rjohn05
on Sep 2, 2008
HA!
dreimanis
on Sep 2, 2008
yay for apple?
johnpapola
on Sep 2, 2008
Confirmed: Paul is obsessed with the most trivial nonsense from the Mac blogosphere.
Anna_T
on Sep 2, 2008
LOL
mikegalos@msn.com
on Sep 2, 2008
"I just hope they get some press, given what Microsoft's already planned." Don't worry, Paul. I'm sure you; give each product a preview, quick review, detailed review and review of the updated ROM.
RunTimeError
on Sep 2, 2008
"Yeah, that's what this blog would be like if I was a partisan loser. :)" You may not be partisan (I think), but you are painting yourself a loser.
mikegalos@msn.com
on Sep 2, 2008
And you are correct as painting yourself as an Error.
DRWAM
on Sep 2, 2008
That's too funny. You get an "A" for headline grabbing as I fell for it. I feel so used;)
yert
on Sep 2, 2008
Two days away from the Sept. 4th Salvo of ads that is rumored. Well, if it hits on the fourth...
subzerohitman721
on Sep 2, 2008
(Shaking my head and Sighing.) The more Apple and Microsoft try to look or act different, the more they actually end up looking or acting alike. Its like dealing with the devil. Either way, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Its like two children fighting over the same toy and then in the next minute, the toy sits all by itself. The conditions are ripe for the next Steve Jobs or the next Bill Gates to steal the show from both companies. I don't think Google is up to it, but we shall see.
lotsamystuff
on Sep 3, 2008
"Thats harsh :D I hope Microsoft get all the attention they deserve. Apple should stop being so childish." ...and another WinJihadist takes the bait, falling for Paul's gag headline hook, line and sinker. It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
wingdisk
on Sep 3, 2008
Is Microsoft starting to look like an underdog?. I use both mac and pc so I hope both companies give us the best software and "user experience" there is. Is Paul a secret mac fanboy?
gorath
on Sep 3, 2008
@ lotsa, regarding your quote, methinks he's taking the pi**?

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