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Re: Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads?
« on: March 22, 2012, 07:04:30 AM »
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Nothing unusual here except that Microsoft sells software for Macs. Sales and marketing can't use Macs to push Office for Mac?
From what we know, it's ridiculous to assume they haven't already got cases like this covered.

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What about all those highly skilled marketing designers trained and experienced on Mac versions of software?
Which ones? Oh, right, none of us have any idea if these people actually exist within the company, and until we do, what you say is just an imaginary fabrication.

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Policies that unnecessarily restrict the tool choices of creatives are wondrously wrongheaded. (Skilled artists and artisans aren't usually limited by their tools, but preferences exist nonetheless.)
The Adobe suite isn't exclusive to the Mac, you know. I could see your point if there was any particular lapse in Windows softare that the Mac's got covered, or if the operation of the system was vastly different, but none of those have been true for ages. I know Apple have been pushing the idea of the Mac as the machine of choice for creative, free spirits and artists, and both companies and individuals have swallowed the bait whole, but it just doesn't hold water any more.
 

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Re: Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads?
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2012, 02:17:08 PM »
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The implication is that their own products can't compete without this policy :)

No, it isn't.
 

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Re: Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads?
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2012, 03:21:31 PM »
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Yes it is!

The burden of explaining your reasoning lies on you. This is the leaked email: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-banning-mac-ipad-purchases-by-its-sales-and-marketing-group/12221
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Re: Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads?
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2012, 03:45:20 PM »
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Are you sure about that? Anyway, it would be a supposition, not a fabrication.

I'm obviously not 100% sure that you don't have any idea, but since you posed most of the points in your last post as questions, I think I made a perfectly valid assumption (or supposition, if you will) in saying that you don't know.

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I never mentioned Adobe, but Microsoft does have numerous products and technologies that compete directly with Adobe's.

... and Adobe has several poductivity tools that aren't easily replaceable by Microsoft tools. I'm not proposing they'd be using Flash over Silverlight, but maybe PS over MS Paint, Premiere over Movie Maker or Audition over... sndrec32.exe?

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On the surface, this isn't much different from policies that prevent employees from wearing a competitor's labeled clothing to work.

Yes it is, unless those clothes are bought with company money. Did you overlook that or do you just think that it doesn't make any difference?