Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 12:52 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > [snipped some good information about why wintel is still a natural > choice for most] > > (3) and most importantly: despite all I hear about how compatible > Apple-based MS Office can be with the larger Windows world, my > experience says otherwise. Every time I have received a document made > on an Apple from someone, it does not work *exactly* the same way on > the PC. Sure, it opens and looks more or less OK, but there is always > some problem with formatting that does not translate right etc. And > since I need to share the documents I create at home with people who > use almost exclusively Windows, I have to be sure that they see what I > send them. And that would simply not the case if I had an Apple. > As they say, resistance is futile, we will all be assimilated :-) Thankfully Canon (or Nikon, or Minolta) has not dominated the imaging world with some proprietary standard that forces us all to conform to their vision of photography! We may not have much freedom of choice in personal computing, but there is still a place for the energetic nonconformist ;-) - - marc - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html