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This Is just to funny. I wish Apple did this more often!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love it!!

All right the gloves are off!

Maybe they (Apple) might finally reckon it's time to get stuck into M$. A native version of Open Office might do the trick.

I'm sure the developers of Konfabulator and Watson can appreciate the humor!

Oh how funny!! Perhaps Apple feels a little independent because they might actually have a great update of Appleworks? Hhhmmmm...GOODBYE OFFICE!

I find it hard to believe -- is that an open declaration of war on M$?

Microsoft is vulnerable because Windows is currently unusable -- antivirus utilities can't keep up: business are finding their HPs acting up (if they can get them to act at all); schools running Dells can't allow internet access... and Mac users are completely unaffected.

Office is somewhat vulnerable with various open source alternatives. Consider the web-based SimDesk office suite and its 5-million deal with the City of Houston and upcoming deals with Indiana and various schools (at $1 a head!). Even HP is thinking of providing hardware for these programs.

By late 2005, as many as 400,000 Chicago public school students will have access. And on June 24, the state of Indiana was to announce it would make SimDesk available to its 6 million residents. "Anyone who has Internet access now also has free access to a full suite of office software," says Indiana Lieutenant Governor Kathy Davis. "I think this is the real deal. It's one of the things Microsoft is going to have to watch."

Apple could easily do this through .Mac. Is this the start of ...

W A R ???

If the BusinessWeek link takes you to the front page the article is titled "A Sweet Deal In Suite Software"

I guess this means there will not be a Microsoft rep telling the crowd how committed Microsoft is to the Apple platform, blah blah blah... It would be too ackward. Anyway, it is not like they do not deserve it, having stolen every Apple innovation and repackaged it in their Windows operating system. Now Microsoft is making noise about it's supposed iPod-killer. Hogwash! People don't need portable video; they just need more iPods.

>MacDailyNews Take: Moo.

More like: Ey ... toro! Toro! [a bulfighter's taunt].

Give the world an alternative to MS Office.

Really funny and very provocative!

But... can someone help me out on the "Redmond, we have a problem"?
I can see an Apollo/Houston reference, but surely it then sounds like Apple is the stricken Apollo craft and Microsoft is Mission Control!.

I am Dutch, so I might be missing something. Thanks

@ stringbean:
change the perspective:
the one who says that is some MS representative / developer seeing all the goodies on display at wwdc and calling headquarters in Redmond. - makes much more sense, right?
regards from hamburg / germany

These banners have emotionally scarred me.

Yeah, that's a bit lame... should have been: "Redmond: It's back to the drawing board" but that's too long. Or "Redmond: 'We have a problem.'" On the other hand, expecting better punctuation from the US than the Dutch is optimistic. How many languages you speak, stringbean?

thanks for that, matt -- that perspective must be right.

"The real IT world" is laughing thier asses off at you moronic mac users and your psychobabble.

©

EXCELLENT!

All we need is Apple to launch it's 'office' killer app that inter-connects with the ilife suite and I can finally get rid of the only virus on my Mas - MICROSOFT OFFICE!

Keep it up Apple! - Even Windows Users hate Microsoft!

Matt, yes I think you are right... very subtle. I think Apple are raising the stakes if they are attacking Microsoft so directly!
Thanks for the insight

Perhaps this is the release of a MacOS X for Intel?

I should sue Fox News' "Less is 'Moore'" and the New York Post's "Less is Moore" for abusing my nickname but I'm sure it's not deliberate -- unlike Apple's taunts.

Gotta go kill a steer for dinner now.

of course jobs and gates never talk, only we consumers understand how they interact

You just know the PCheads just won't have a sense of humour over this don't you. can't wait for all the angst.

in a way, this signifies the mind-set of many mac users and steve jobs alike: bold. we decide to make our own choices and at some point the microscheisse biased media and pc users by the dozen will eventually become targets of our aggression. i myself take pop-shots at microscheiss' all the time, but it does seem a little odd for a corporation like apple take this approach. i happen to like it. perhapes it has preaching to it's base crowd, but we all know that apple's advertising strategy (not the company, mind you) has been a little flaccide, leaving apple's imagine like, as robin williams once put it, 'midget in a diving suit.' for once they've been aggressive in promoting the operating system, which has always been the 'real' basis of our macintosh experience - not the pretty boxes they come in (which seems to be so glorified by the apple ads).

immature adolescent nonsense

This is great and fun...can't wait for the punch line if these are the teasers.

does anybody have a mirror of those pics ?
[The photos originally posted with this report have been removed at the photographer's request.]
...
photographer got cold feet ?

found them
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=906182&postcount=11

Hey Sputnik, how can the "real IT world" be laughing their asses off when they are too scared to log onto the Internet for fear of getting yet another virus?

re: stringbean / "Redmond, we have a problem"

Think of this not as Apple calling Redmond, but as someone from MS calling back to Redmond from the WWDC.

Apple and MS are cooperating within certain segments (like office software) and competing head on within others. It is quite a normal situation for cooperate giants.

The only thing that is unusual is that normally I don't think any other companies that need to cooperate with MS would challenge them in such a provocative way.

Actually Apple's message is not directed at MS but toward the press: What Longhorn is promising to offer in 2006 OSX is offering today - and they want to make sure that every journalist gets the point ... and remembers it

Its just great that someone over there can take a shot at authority/establishment and if microsoft aisn't establishment these days who the hell is. It always worries me when you see kids running around supporting the status quo without question as so many PC weenies do it just ain't healthy you know. So If this is 'immature and adolescent' that only goes to show just how conformist and unquestioning thinking has become these days especially as it is essentially in the same vein as the original 1984 ads (when free thinking was actually considered an asset), only with a nice humourous twist. More power to Apple's elbow it simply shows their new found confidence and independence I only suggest that they take this a stage further next April 1st by circulating a news release detailing how the Kremlin, now irrelavent in its existing location, is being demolished and re built brick by brick in Uncle Bills back yard.

you guys think Office is VULNERABLE?! are you crazy?! i see no great alternatives to the impeccable Office v.X 2004

Can someone also explain
"Redmond, start your photocopiers"?

Perhaps Apple is planning to port OS X to PCs? If it was ever an option then there's probably never been a better time to do it... Windows crippled... Longhorn years away... Apple proving to itself, with iTunes/iPod, that not only is it possible to cross-platform successfully, but it's also FUN to bask in the mainstream too.

This form of advertising should have it's own name.

How about "Macstab" or "Macstabbing".

Unless people think we should reserve these words for what happens when Winblows users get on their high horses and try to explain how great their crummy 3 year old operating system is compared to OS X.

look up the word 'copy' in the dictionary

There's a picture of Bill Gates in my dictionary.

So much for quite confidence. Looks like Steve is feeling a bit supercilious this month.

Well, folks, I hope the hype matches our deep desires for a new and improved OS. OK, Steve, wow me.

Can someone also explain
"Redmond, start your photocopiers"?

Here's what you have to COPY into too_long_horn to give it some class, seeming as you have copied everything else so far. Haven't you fukcers any original ideas of your own?

when we will be able to see through quick time that conference? does any 1 know ??

Can someone also explain
"Redmond, start your photocopiers"?

It's amazing how some people here can't even seem to be able to read 4 simple banners. It's called humor folks...

suck it microsoft!

ha, ha, ha, I am pissing in my panties.

Word is, the keynote MIGHT be posted as streaming QT at a later date.
However considering that last years keynote has been removed from the Apple servers, I doubt it.
There are big things afoot methinks.

Is there anywhere else I can see the banners?
They took them down at MacMinute, I wanna see 'em!!!!

I'm also looking for other gay males to penetrate me. 'Real IT World' guys only..

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=906182&postcount=11

Here is the link to the banners. They are still there

I hope apple will add some wiped cream by starting an ad compagne for its laptops and OS.

Redmond, Bite me hard and see if I care.

thats awesome

Apple always posts its new webpages featuring their new products during Steve's keynote, so without a streaming video of the event, all you can do is keep updating http://www.apple.com/ pages.

:-(

Word has it that SpyMac will be covering the event with relevant updates.

http://www.spymac.com