Microsoft books stall at Appule - the Mac expo stiffed by Apple Microsoft has signed up for the Appule Personal and Professional User Live Expo, which Apple has so far snubbed. The London-based trade show was to be called AppleExpo, until the organiser Indigo Media received legal letters from Apple about potential trademark infringement. The name of the two-day show, which runs at the …
A convention for people who love Apple kit, with vendors who supply Apple kit, 3rd parties who provide software, services and products for Apple kit and so benefit the company in all kinds of ways and all of them do it because they love Apple and Apple loves them...
Oh wait
You can't use the word Apple or we'll sue. Tells you everything you need to know about the company you love so much. They don't give a toss about you, only your money.
Yes I have seen many conferences with the word Microsoft attached because that is what the 3rd party has been promoting even though Microsoft have not been involved but Microsoft have the sense not to send the lawyers in all guns blazing. I wouldn't have a problem if the expo had wanted to use the logo or other corporate copyrighted stuff but they didn't. They just wanted to use the word Apple to allow people who might be interested to know it was primarily about Apple stuff but the powers that be in Cupertino think they own the word Apple which they don't.
"Umm I don't see many conferences calling themselves "Microsoft Expo" around, when Microsoft isn't involved, do you? Or even "Google <something>" when not specifically backed by Google."
Hmm, is that possibly because there just isn't the level of fanboy-ism going on with other companies?
Could well be...
"i own an apple device and therefore i am part of a special club of lovely apple people, let's all get together and celebrate how unique and awesome we are". Sigh.
...........may not have been involved in this set of threats. It may simply have been at the initiative of the reseller the article mentions - although I grant you that his behaviour is little different from that we expect and have seen regularly from Cupertino.
A PGCE-student ex of mine hated it when she tried Office X for mac a couple of years back. Then her workplace went entirely mac in a new build (bar a few PCs for admin machines as they couldn't stand mac equivalents for school / library administration) and she got a macbook and some training. I use OpenOffice on my mac personally, doesn't always get layouts right but most of the time perfectly usable on the move.
That's a shame, I've always had a lot of time for Token Ring. It's really a shame that it didn't really go much past 16MB, it was conceptually a very good, efficient, networking technology, particularly for LANs, much more efficient than Ethernet. IBM should have made it a lot cheaper and it may have contended with Ethernet a lot longer.
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