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Yawn!

"Like the Windows Vista feature it emulates, the Google Sidebar presents discrete panes of information that can be filled with various bits of functionality." But Paul, according to the local Apple trolls, Microsoft is the only company that "emulates" features proposed or implemented by others!

Awesome!! Now this is the Sidebar as it was meant to be. Not like Micro$oft's clunky version that eats up too much space!

So now Microsoft is also copying from Google. Google's OS has even been announced and the boys in Redmond started up their copiers. LOL!

one of these days google is going to run out of things to steal your information with.

My God, Paul, you're a smarmy b a s t a r d today, aren't you?

http://www.desktopsidebar.com/.....ummm they have been around awhile..

It's great to see Google actually following Microsoft's footsteps some. They are human too.

http://www.desktopsidebar.com/.....ummm they have been around awhile.. ____________________________________________ Oh, and please ignore these mac idiots. They troll around when not engaged in building pretty pictures in photoshop, to give network admins security advice. They have been known to say things like, "the US Mil uses MAC's for security" which is pretty much taken out of context because the gov't most secure systems are run on IBM and Sun and other things. desktopsidebar.com was registered in July of 2003, this stupid effing photoshop idiot just typed desktop sidebar into google and assumes he knowns what he is talking about.

"desktopsidebar.com was registered in July of 2003, this stupid effing photoshop idiot just typed desktop sidebar into google and assumes he knowns what he is talking about." BlTCH-SLAP @ Apple Troll.

Quote: "Debian releases Linux patches to address Firefox vulnerability August 22, 2005 - 12:21 EST Debian has released updated packages to address multiple security vulnerabilities identified in Mozilla Firefox. These flaws could be exploited by malicious websites to conduct cross site scripting attacks or compromise a vulnerable system." [THG]

Windows--for playing videogames in your admin account while anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and registry cleaner software runs in your system tray. Macs--for getting real work done.

Meanwhile, all the Mac users are laughing at the Windows kidz who are still waiting another two years to get real desktop search. Have fun in your admin accounts running Ad-aware and Norton everyday, kiddiez.

For REAL desktop search integrated right into the kernel that lets you search inside any file type you throw at it, go here: www.apple.com/macosx

Haha. Meanwhile, Mac users already have Spotlight that gives us saved search folders, real-time updating of search results, integration with all our apps and their file dialogs, and the ability to search inside of any file type via Spotlight plug-ins. It's truly light years ahead of the entire Windows world--you guys look ancient and seven years behind everything we Mac users do daily because of our superior designed operating system. No wonder Microsoft's sales are down and Apple's are skyrocketing every month. "OS X is simply better than Windows." - Paul Thurrott "Longhorn is a trainwreck." - Paul Thurrott

www.apple.com/switch

www.microsoft.com/windows

Windows world--you guys look ancient and seven years behind everything we Mac users do daily because of our superior designed operating system. You mean your pretty shell designed in photoshop which resides on SCO's Operating system. Shouldn't you be finishing up the site for your client?

It's funny that an article about Google has turned into anti-Microsoft bashing because it was obviously linked at some Mac site. If I were to go trolling the comment sections and forums at Mac sites, I'd feel like a pathetic, ignorant teenager. It just boggles my mind that so many apparently enjoy acting that way.

's funny that an article about Google has turned into anti-Microsoft bashing -------- Dude.. wake up.. everyone in the world hates MS, besides their employees..(Paul).. it surprises you that customers hate MS?? Are you freakin insane?

Oh, and please ignore these mac idiots.QUOTE lol you raving lunatic its for windows and according to your research 2005-2003= 2 years..some people should not drink and post.....boy do you efin stupid

"Dude.. wake up.. everyone in the world hates MS, besides their employees.." Leave your mother's basement (anything on the "interweb" doesn't count). I've asked people how they feel about Microsoft, and I usually get a positive or neutral response.

"Have fun in your admin accounts running Ad-aware and Norton everyday, kiddiez." I run neither ^_^. Have fun using your "Mighty Mouse" to continue to troll the site, while you're at it.

"runs in your system tray." Software doesn't run in the system tray. You can repeat that lie all you want but it won't do you any good. I'll just keep replying to it.

Apple's sales are increasing, but not "skyrocketing" as you put it. "because of our superior designed operating system." God you are so full of crap. "'Longhorn is a trainwreck.' - Paul Thurrott" I believe Paul said "maybe it isn't such a trainwreck after all". I don't expect you to present up-to-date stuff though. Who care's if it's obsolete? It will *somehow* destroy Windows users... 1. Repeat outdated quotes. 2. Give Apple more praise than they deserve. 3. ??? 4. Profit!

You people need to just suck it up. The MAC users have valid opinions, and though they dont post them here, they are not all a bunch of hippies that dont know how to do anything but photoshop. Likewise, neither OS is bad. It involves something we call an opinion, which means Mac users are allowed to be wrong, and so are the Windows users. I have to agree with the Mac users, the user setup is more secure. So secure in fact that I havent been able to update my Mac (even as root user) in over a month. You gotta love admin priveleges in Windows sometimes. As for the sidebar, I feel sorry for the Mac users that cant have it yet, and having tried both Vista type sidebars and this one I have to say the Google sidebar is quite good. -Brad

"You people need to just suck it up. The MAC users have valid opinions, and though they dont post them here, they are not all a bunch of hippies that dont know how to do anything but photoshop." If they have valid points, why aren't they posting them? And the troll(s) here don't seem to give the impression that they know how to do anything besides photoshop. Anyone who makes claims that software "runs in a system tray" is a moron. They're not hippies. Hippies aren't likely to resort to calling people "Toilet Man". No, 14-year-olds are more likely to do that. "I have to agree with the Mac users, the user setup is more secure." You're not just agreeing with Mac users. There are Windows users that feel that way too (like me). "So secure in fact that I havent been able to update my Mac (even as root user) in over a month. " You can't update as root? That seems kinda strange... How exactly do you update your OS and it's components?

Hey Paul, how long till we move to the SuperSite and you can start banning the spammers?

>>>"You people need to just suck it up. The MAC users have valid opinions,... >>Hey Paul, how long till we move to the SuperSite and you can start banning the spammers? Are all Valid opinions from Mac users? Many of us are cross platform users from VMS, SYSTEM XX, Dos, Windows, Unix, AIX, Mac OS, etc, etc. Paul has asked for comments. When I Yawn! at him in the morning, does this make me a spammmer? I will give Paul some credit. He calls himself a "journalist". I disagree with him about being a "Journalist" as I feel that a Journalist tries to be objective when he/she reports something. In my "Second Grade", "Fifth Grade" mind or wherever :P (uss) or Paul thinks my comments are my comments. A Journalist whom ask for comments understands that the comments are welcome in the form of "speakers square". I am not sure if :P is Paul or not. I would hope not as I think Paul has a little more class but I am not sure. Anyhow, if you don't like the comments do read them. If your read them expect all type of s h i t to be written. In other words go f u c k yourself! Paul and his website asked for comments and this is mine. YAWN! BTW, I don't know Paul, but if he met me or I met him I am sure we would buy each other a beer and have no hard feelings. :J

http://www.desktopsidebar.com/ This Sidebar has been around since 2003. Been using this one for about a year now. Never had a problem with it since day one install...

"For REAL desktop search integrated right into the kernel that lets you search inside any file type you throw at it, go here: www.apple.com/macosx" It seems you have absolutely NO idea how the kernel of OS X is built...

"I am not sure if :P is Paul or not. I would hope not as I think Paul has a little more class but I am not sure. Anyhow, if you don't like the comments do read them. If your read them expect all type of s h i t to be written. In other words go f u c k yourself! Paul and his website asked for comments and this is mine." If you're talking about the :P person, that's usually me. I'm not Paul, and i'm almost positive there's some way to prove it. I don't think that issue is important enough to waste Paul's time with though. And you're not one to talk about class yourself, evading the profanity filter like that. And secondly, I have just as much "right" to comment on your comments as you comment on others and Paul's articles. Don't like it, don't read it. Duh. :P

windoze/with or with out linux can hack a mac ,can mac attack with or with out?

Have they added support for user profiles?

Would have been nice if Paul could have been bothered to do some research on this - and maybe warn users of the impact of desktop search on the Exchange server ! http://support.microsoft.com/?id=905184 Call yourself a journalist???

"windoze/with or with out linux can hack a mac ,can mac attack with or with out? " Mac attack?? isn't that when you've been recovering servers all night and are dying for some junk food???

"Dude.. wake up.. everyone in the world hates MS, besides their employees..(Paul).. it surprises you that customers hate MS?? Are you freakin insane?" That would be funny, if it were true. Look at data from a respected company. They interestingly put Microsoft at number two for the most respected companies: http://www.pwc.com/extweb/ncsurvres.nsf/docid/8fb55e0d663409f580256f4f003b99d3 I know that if I did more research I could find more reports that show Microsoft as being respected very well. I would say that only, I don't know, about 3% of the US population actually hate Microsoft, which is about the market share of a particular computer company.

"I will give Paul some credit. He calls himself a "journalist". I disagree with him about being a "Journalist" as I feel that a Journalist tries to be objective when he/she reports something." True enough, but I don't see this any different from the majority of journalists out there, whether they are in tech or not. The situation here is that Paul is a tech journalist, and he reports on Windows. This automatically gives him a bias towards Windows. The reader has to be able to discern these biases, and make their own decisions. I'm sure that the guy from ThinkSecret, or a journalist at some Mac orient magazie/web site is going to be equally as biased towards the Mac as Paul is towards Windows.

iPods now hold the entire Amazon US top ten sales slots and 12 of the top 20 computers sold through Amazon US are Macs. www.apple.com/switch

yep..the old mac knobs are back again demonstrating their inferiority complex "my mac is better than your pc"..if macs are so good why isn't 99% of the world using them like windows..so what if microsoft ran down competitors..it's a business afterall and that's the main aim of businesses..make profit at your competitors expense..mac users like to portray themselves as intellectuals..yet the mac users coming in here with their anti ms comments demonstrate how product orienated they are and how they blindly follow it..at least ms users have choice..don't like IE..use Firefox..don't like MP...use winamp and so on and so on

What's spyware?! I own a macintosh and i've never heard of it... Did you know Mac OS X has NO VIRUSES for it? Windows users are stupid MACs are LIGHT YEARS ahead of windoze. You guys still have device drivers to deal with when you install hardware... but MAC OS X doesn't even use those Microsoft wont even use .NOT in their new OS... shows how .NOT useful IT IS LOL Look! MS used MAC OS X to show off a demo for XBOX 360! Shows how much WINBLOWZ and x86 SUCK! Sure, macs may cost more than pcs at first, but you guyz spend fortunez having to fix ur computers all the time. Cost of ownership for MACs is lower. 2 years... almost everyone will use MACs... The rest of you windows kiddies will use WINDOWS LONGTOOTH DRM UPDATE 3. Everyone owns an IPOD, apples AAC format has CRUSHED THE DEAD WMA FORMAT.

"Did you know Mac OS X has NO VIRUSES for it? Windows users are stupid." What does "no viruses" have to do with Windows users being stupid? Sure, the platform I choose to use may have viruses, but they never really affect me (ya know, firewall, firefox, up-to-date windows, etc). It's dumb to call windows users stupid, and then post switch URLs as if those people are going to switch. You're not helping your cause. "MACs are LIGHT YEARS ahead of windoze. You guys still have device drivers to deal with when you install hardware... but MAC OS X doesn't even use those" Mac OS X doesn't use device drivers? Maybe you should look up what device drivers are. I can ASSURE you Mac OS X uses them. "Microsoft wont even use .NOT in their new OS... shows how .NOT useful IT IS LOL" HAHAHA... Hilarious. No, Really... .NET is part of Vista. The .NET framework can also be installed on XP, 2K, 2K3 and 98 machines as well. They ARE using it in their current OS. "2 years... almost everyone will use MACs... The rest of you windows kiddies will use WINDOWS LONGTOOTH DRM UPDATE 3." It's called Vista now, and don't pretend Apple is free of DRM. You guys do have FairPlay, and apparently DRM chips on the mobos that will be used with Leopard boxes. "Everyone owns an IPOD, apples AAC format has CRUSHED THE DEAD WMA FORMAT." Hardly anyone I know owns an iPod. What are the demographics for those things anyways? And btw, WMA is still alive and well. I've noticed a depressing increase in it's usage.

"kiddiez." Man, you know what, you're right. You're obviously a dangerous hacker/cracker with many years of experience. When you're not busy making posts on Slashdot that are always modded +5 funny or insightful, you're writing code for darwin and linux at the same time, using your right and left hands. I think I will switch to Mac OS X, and it's "rock solid" UNIX foundation so that you won't h4x0r me.

I do have to admit, I am a bit worried. I've been checking online computer retailers, and Apple is doing a bit too well for my comfort level. I don't want Apples to be popular, for the following reasons: 1) Because their developer environment reminds me of RealBASIC, and RealBASIC BLOWS. I truely hate RealBASIC, with a passion. 2) I don't like the way Objective-C does some things (Hint: seperating implentation and code isn't my beef with it). 3) Apple's framework is missing some things I enjoy in Windows world. 4) Microsoft is tolerable, because although they have a semi-tight grip in the software world, they don't seem to be too powerful of a player in hardware. That means they're limited in the amount of evil they can do. If the most popular vendor controls BOTH hardware and software, then it starts getting a bit scary. 5) Not enough freeware and open-source utilities for Apples. Apple troll, why not try and convince people Apple is a trustable company (that's gonna be hard, and no, telling me how untrustable Microsoft is doesn't make me trust Apple more)? They seem to have had a lot of erratic behavior, and it's kinda disturbing. Switch processors, switch business models, switch legal views on certian things... constantly switching something. I'm not trying to post FUD. I think most of what I said should be obvious. Also, their marketing is kinda deceptive some times. E.g. commercials saying Macs never crash (I believe Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X era) when I know for a ******* fact they did/do. Don't BS me about your damn product.

>>>>"I will give Paul some credit. He calls himself a "journalist". I disagree with him about being a "Journalist" as I feel that a Journalist tries to be objective when he/she reports something." <<< Anonymous User -August 24, 2005

>>If you're talking about the :P person, that's usually me. I'm not Paul, and i'm almost positive there's some way to prove it. I don't think that issue is important enough to waste Paul's time with though. I need no proof. You said your not. Thats good enough for me. >>And you're not one to talk about class yourself, evading the profanity filter like that. And secondly, I have just as much "right" to comment on your comments as you comment on others and Paul's articles. Don't like it, don't read it. Duh. :P First of all you brought up the class issue (third, fifth grade, etc. etc.) LOL! Second. I never suggested you have or don't have rights to comment or not comment on my comments or anybodys else. Far for it. I have bitched about censorship (bining) on this board. If you ask for "anonymous" comments take them as they come. No matter whom is paying the bill. >>Don't like it, don't read it. Duh. :P This is not what I posted. Once again far from it. I would not ask someone not to read the comments. If someone feels the need to post, I would tell them to do it. Its seem to me "Anonymous comments" are welcome no matter how stupid, on target, or whatever. >>... evading the profanity filter like that. Once again, I don't subscribe to your or anyone elses censorship. Most likely I will find a way to tell you to go f u c k yourself. :J

"My point to you and all reading this is: A "Journalist" would never allow censorship, to happen when he/she welcomes "anonymous" comments. No matter whom was paying the bill. " Do you really think that is why anonymous users can post?? WAKE UP. Its to do with site traffic and advertising !

Woah, you people are having a massive war about this and missing the blatantly obvious! Mac's and PC's are... (wait for it)... DIFFERENT! There is little doubt about it - Mac's have a far supeoior OS (and also have superior hardware). The Mac OS is based on a fundementaly more stable and better structured foundation (Hell - even just A structured foundation would do!). Microsoft and other windows based developers spend ages working on features that are already fundementaly part of the OSX architecture - like multiple desktops and complex graphical desktop effects (I'm not a Mac user myself, so I cant give an extensive list). Mac's were way ahead of their time back in the days of windows 3.1, and they are way ahead of their time now - Long after windows has emulated an equivalent of Mac's desktop searching, this same argument will be going on about another feature. What I like best is that the only response windows users have to any of this is "why arent mac's being used by 99% of the population then", a point which hasnt got that much to do with how good the OS is (if you actualy take the time to think about wat your saying). Windows is used more extensively because microsoft have better publicity and advertising - people buy a windows computer because they know what theyre getting - they are easiest to use (because its what theyre farmiliar with, or its what those around them are farmiliar with), there is also far better support from 3rd party software developers (i.e. your games 'n stuf will run on it). Face it - its popularity has kept it popular - not that it isnt a great OS with many great features (some which Mac's dont have), but its not as good as Mac OS - if you were restricted to the range of programs available on both, and still preferred to use the windows machine... its probably because you arent farmiliar with mac's and people are afraid of change.

Myself I'd like to see the playing field leveled out a bit - both companies have their good and bad points, but the points against Apple are petty and really have little to do with the quality of their product.

Oh yeah - one last point: Probably the biggest reason why widnows is more popular is because its easily pirated and more useable than the only othr "free" OS - Linux (which has pretty much the same problems as Mac OS... but is harder to get to grips with).

PC = 98% of all desktop share The other 2% are idiots.

whoah! again .. the subject is desktop sidebar #**** mac,windowss ,paul as a journalistand the size of his under garmments, get a mod in here and clean this #**** out..case closed