A little off-topic.
Orbit86 wrote:
what I hate from MS is that they create to kill other competitors.. Acrylic - Photoshop Virtual PC - VMware
I am a Mac OS X user and was once a Windows user (up to 98, although I've fiddled with XP). It's not that I dislike Windows. I simply like Mac OS X better. This is just to state that I am not particularly pro-MS (and neither I consider myself anti-MS). In any case, those two apps were already far in development before MS acquired them. In relation to Virtual PC, neither Connectix, VMWare Inc or MS invented hardware virtualization, so giving more credit to VMWare than to VPC is, IMHO, unfair (VPC is here since 1997, no idea about VMWare). In relation to Acrylic (formerly Expression), if you consider it to be competition to Photoshop, you simply have used neither professionally. Both serve different ends and might even complement each other. I do grant you, though, that acquiring Expression seemed to lead to killing any further development for the Mac OS version (read Apple & Logic or Shake…). I still have hopes, since Acrylic is in beta stage. And I do agree with you that MS had and still has in many areas that strategy. It's just that I do not think those two products are representative for that. PS:Excuse me for the lack of formatting. No idea why it is happening…