How's about a round for Microsoft?  Microsoft lovers are far and few inbetween, but I am a proud Microsoft lover.  Everything from Windows Media to Flight Simulator.

And for all you boycotters, I refuse to use Apple!  Ha! I only have Quicktime installed because for some crazy reason people actually use the .mov format.  I wish I could nuke iTunes out of the installation process.

PS: Have never slandered Microsoft with the dollar sign, and never plan to do so!

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Yep! Who the hell saves videos as .ram?! Every audio file should be .mp3 and every video file .avi. Simple. No more silly .wmas and .movs. Pointless really.

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That's quite a downside.

I had long since thought RealMedia was all but dead.  I was downloading aircraft videos the other day and to my shock, I found a retched .ram!  RealAlternative does the trick though.

I actually prefer WMA over MP3, as I can get seamless song transitions in WMP.

I agree with y'all.  No more silly formats.  Just MP3 and WMA, and MPG and AVI.

3D RENDERING ON A MAC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my god...... STOPPPPPP
I´m i that business for more than 10 years.. believe me.. no
serious company would ever use a Mac for 3D Graphics.
(Not even Pixar who was previously owned by Steve Jobs)
I know one big FX company here in Munich who gave Maya
for Macintosh a try. And they threw it in the trash after 2 days of testing.
The Mac is a pure Flatdesigner Machine. And even in that branch is not the dominating platform anymore. Most advertising agencies I´m working with use Intel/Windows
allready.

Regarding Music (software). This is their very last "ace in the hole".
But not long anymore because "Logic Audio" is meanwhile
dead... there will be no further versions. For anyone who does not know this story....
Once there was a fantastic company called E-Magic (not Magix) who build the best audio sequencer software on the market called "Logic Audio". It was available for
Windows and Mac. Than Apple came.. bought the company... and stopped the Windows Version. Cause most studios used  Logic on a PC and didn´t want to change to a Mac.. instead they bought Cubase (the competitor of Logic). Now after constantly decreasing sales figures.. they finally also stopped Logic for Macintosh... and probabely the best Sequencer Software
is gone forever
http://www.apple.com/support/emagic/

this is all that´s left...
.... Therefor I hate Apple !!!

I had to work 2 years on Mac´s at school and from my experience.. the are not more stable than Intel/Windows !!
they are not faster !! (compared to the price even slower)
they are way more expensive.. and ship with a mouse with just one button (snowball fight in boxing gloves ?!)
You have to pay for every update... and so on and so on.


Sorry I don´t want to insult any Mac User here.. but I´m absolutely biased on that thematic

cheers


edit: did I mention that I hate Quicktime, too
It recently came up with a message that I can´t use it anymore cause my license ran out and I will need a new version. But this "new version" automatically installed i-tunes...... well  .... farewell Quicktime.. i will not miss you.. and use media player classic instead wich can play movs
as well 

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ditto... i meant i have a shuffle, got it for christmas. haven't opened it yet. just got a new phone w/ mp3 playing, been using it constantly.

i've always been against the "apple drug" with one exception to itunes.

Ramos

I did my best to dissuade my sister, but it was hopeless.  She had the nerve to proudly display it to me, then she was asking for help on how to use iTunes!  Ha!