[DM-MUG] Re: Mac for Point of Sale business use?

[Ray Bowler]

At 8:49 PM -0500 on 6/18/04, CW Smith wrote about Re: [DM-MUG] Re: 
Mac for Point of Sale business use?:
>
>My main gripes are that Microsoft bought out VirtualPC's original creator,
>Connectix, about a year ago, and they now only offer VPC as part of Office X
>Professional Edition (about $600).  No standalone version anymore, and it
>doesn't come with the Standard or Student versions of Office X.

I just checked MicroSoft's Mac Website <http://www.mactopia.com> and 
it is showing standalone VPC with your choice of Windows version. XP 
is $269, I didn't check the others. I would check CompUSA and online 
vendors. I just checked a couple of online vendors and their prices 
are a lot lower than MS. You can buy a one with the system although 
2000, XP Home and XP PRO seem to be all that are available. You can 
also buy one with no system and install your own (Linux anyone?)

MicroSoft taking over VPC is negative in that it increases their 
monopoly but almost immediately they came out with an update which 
bumped the speed up. MS makes a lot of effort to have their Mac 
software be good-in my opinion IE and Entourage for the Mac are 
superior to their Windoze counterparts. The Mac versions are not 
ports--they are Mac specific.


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Ray

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