News for Saturday, 27 January 2007

There has always been Macs in the French gendarmerie (a police force depending on the Ministry of Defense). Recently, however, this institution has decided to ban some pieces of Apple software.
- Safari now has to be replaced by Firefox because of compatibility issues with their Intranet.
- Mail, as well as Entourage, are banned as well, for they don't implement TSL type security. Thunderbird remains as the one mail client complying to that standard.
The Macs' future in the Gendarmerie has become ever gloomier since the very day this institution decided to get rid of Microsoft software. From now on the gendarmes will be using Linux-running PCs. Since you can't get a Mac without OSX, the fight can be considered as lost. At least, this was a place where Apple has been surviving longer than Microsoft...

The Norwegian site VG TV has put online a Windows Vista demonstration video. Here's a still from the video:

As you can see, the whole demo has been run on an iMac. Hard to guess what on earth might have prompted this choice, for it sure will upset Microsoft's partners the like of Dell, as well as Apple who, despite its providing Bootcamp, undoubtedly prefers to see Macs running OSX.