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Out with Victoria to the Apple Store.  She really wants a Mac Book   Sure they’re cool.   But the form factor, battery, software costs and the lack of universality of it still really bothers me.  The proprietary nature of their hardware really forces a conformist attitude as much as they are considered “Artistic” and avant guard – Think quite the opposite is true.   PCs can be customized in their configuration in an almost infinite number of ways, but with a Mac – what you buy is what you get.

I just returned from a 10 day vacation from modern civilization in northern Maine.   No TV, Radio, Internet or Cellphone.  Simple life simple meals and good friends.   Less than 3 weeks ago I attended Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference where the conference give away was “Laptop Koozy”   At most a $10 item – that for my $2000 conference – This at a conference that was Microsoft’s most well received event of the year – At the time I said to myself “this is the worst conference bag I’ve ever received at ANY conference.”

Today while catching up on the news I read that at PDC which concluded on Friday Microsoft gave every attendee a free laptop with a touchscreen display.   This at conference that touted more vapourware than any since the 2003 conference (which interestingly enough was the last PDC I attended).

I’m not sure how anyone else feels about this, but I am deeply offended that Microsoft has treated the SharePoint conference attendee base this poorly.   I’m not really sure how to react to it yet other than thinking this is a huge slap in the face.

Thoughts anyone?

PS:  I guess if I had gone to PDC I would have a matched set