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- Flummoxer, on 10/12/2007, -10/+186It must be their new marketing strategy.
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -14/+121disgruntled employee...
or they're just showing unofficial support for the OSX86 cracking community. - caddoo, on 10/12/2007, -24/+115doesn't this show that they aren't at war as much as the fanboys are?
- rmjb, on 10/12/2007, -10/+98Someone should link them to this page:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/systemrequirements.html - TriZz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+79It's nice to see that Microsoft accepts that they are not the end all/be all of computer programs.
- MadMic23, on 10/12/2007, -12/+72Hey guys, that article was written in 2005 by Marc Saltzman, a tech journalist and not a Microsoft employee. It says at the bottom "Article written by Marc Saltzman and adapted from an original piece from Microsoft Home Magazine." So basically, they just didn't edit out the part about the Apple software.
Just bad proof reading on Microsofts part. - MikeyMoose, on 01/30/2009, -15/+66I think you're all missing something - a Mac is a PC - a Personal Computer. He even says "GarageBand is a popular program that turns a Mac computer into a professional-quality recording studio for musicians". The article is accurate.
So no digg. - voyetra8, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43Article title: "Compose and record your own tunes with your PC"
PC != Windows.
Intro sentence about Gargage Band: "Part of iLife '05, a suite of integrated applications (including iMovie and iDVD), GarageBand is a popular program that turns a _Mac_ computer into a professional-quality recording studio for musicians." - toughice, on 10/12/2007, -6/+45Microsoft sells Office to a lot of us Mac users - and while we don't use their OS (at least not exclusivly) we still do pay for some of their products.
This could be a simple case of - Microsoft not having a good product of their own in this arena - so they give their users a suggestion as to what to use.
It's true - Mac users can also be Microsoft users. - alwaysmc2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40Microsoft promotes other companie's products all the time.
http://on10.net is a great example of this. They even talked about Steve Jobs' position on DRM on that website, and I believe the demoed Photobooth. - Blackmane, on 10/12/2007, -8/+42That's really obvious, they even have the word "Mac" in the blurb. Good digg.
- AndreMA, on 10/12/2007, -8/+29Actually a MAC is an ethernet card, hence "MAC Address". A Macintosh (sometimes called a "Mac") is a personal computer (PC) manufactured by Apple, Inc (formerly "Apple Computer, Inc"). But then you knew that, right?
- CaseyTokyo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Let's all click "Yes" for "Was This Information Useful?" at the bottom of the page! lol
- eth3l, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Why is it soooooo bad if MS recommends using Apple products? MS never slams Apple - Its Apple that comes out with the slanderous ads.
If MS wants to produce a competing product, they will. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17It's an article from 2005, I doubt they're going to be editing it anytime soon.
- richwalkup, on 10/12/2007, -10/+25Why is it incorrectly titled? Mac computers are no longer considered personal computers? Just because everyone likes to use the coined terms of PC vs Mac, the true definition of any desktop computer for personal use is PC.
- voyetra8, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17I buried as innacurate too, but after re-reading the original Digg description, it's unclear if the author was claiming that Microsoft states Garageband works on the Microsoft OS.
Deliberately vague? Possibly.
I hate my life. - daybreaker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14How many of you people can actually read??? At no point does the guy say to try and use GarageBand on Windows. He explicitly states that it is for use on Mac. It's an article written by some guy, that Microsoft decided to include on their site due to the helpful nature of discussing the wide variety of programs, MOST of which can be run on Windows.
How many of you would be crying OMG M$ BLOWS right now if you discovered the original article listed a Mac program, but the Microsoft adaptation omitted it?
Get a life and learn to read, people. - Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12no, PC is industry language for a personal computer
what your refering to is fanboy talk
where apple is mac and pc is windows (and sometimes linux)
where mac is made by apple and pc's are made by dell (and sometimes others)
with apples brilliant marketing campain of attack the other guy, they need to designate an other guy to represent what they are attacking, because there is no 1 supplier of PC's and OS's other then apple so they designate targets (windows for OS, dell for hardware) and keep trying to prove how these are worse then apple
but for normal people, a PC is a personal computer - yasth, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17It is general page not a windows page, MS is one of the biggest third party OS X developers. They don't own any of the products there anyways. It is computer advocacy not PC advocacy.
- politech, on 10/12/2007, -9/+19FTA: "Part of iLife '05, a suite of integrated applications (including iMovie and iDVD), GarageBand is a popular program that turns a Mac computer into a professional-quality recording studio for musicians."
So MS does indeed say the software is for Mac.
Is a Mac NOT a personal Computer? Why yes a Mac IS a personal Computer...
Buried as Lame - BrokenBeta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@richwalkup
True, but Apple themselves have a "PC vs Mac" ad campaign so they obviously don't WANT to be considered "standard PCs". That's where it comes from. Your point stands though. - Black913Hole, on 10/12/2007, -12/+21how about fanboi?
- adam84a, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17Considering the market share that macs have, I doubt that Office for Mac is their most profitable product, probably the most profitable product that anyone makes for the mac, but it couldn't be Microsofts most profitable product if it only runs on 5% of the world's computers.
- klawz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10it's Mac, not that I'm bitcing, I have been bitched out for using MAC as Mac, and well MAC is the hardware address of your network card. And a Mac IS a personal computer (compared to a micro computer, or main frame, etc.)
- stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Hello, I'm a 'media access control.'
And I'm a PC. - IceBurrg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7What the article is actually referring to is Microsoft Garage Band Professional 2007. It will come bundled with Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Mac Copy Edition.
- stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6iLife?
- Prometheus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Who actually goes to Microsoft.com's "More Fun" section?
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6http://www.hydrogen-music.org/ - Drum machine, it's not bad (On Linux atleast, the Windows port is very unstable)
http://www.jokosher.org/ - Multitrack recording thing
http://jackaudio.org/ - Audio-routing application
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/MetapackagesBreakdown Has a decent list of Linux audio applications
Also, not really open-source, but you can also use WINE to run Windows applications on Linux, I've tried Reason, and it's very nearly works fine (A small amount of fiddling would get it working), but there's a lot of good audio software for Linux (More so than for Video, of which there's about 3 reasonable Linux NLE's *mutters*)
- Ben - markgarrigan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Here's the original article.
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/home/photosandmusic/2.0.39_makemusicwithbasicsoftware.aspx - DrStephanHeimer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8@blackcow
What the hell are you talking about? - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Nowhere does the article say that GarageBand is for PC, in fact:
"Part of iLife '05, a suite of integrated applications (including iMovie and iDVD), GarageBand is a popular program that turns a Mac computer into a professional-quality recording studio for musicians."
Inaccurate title, marked as such. - qbyte, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8They said nothing on there about running it on Windows. No Digg. This is just Microsoft trying to head off future antitrust law suites by tossing a few pointers here and there to Apple.
- RufusSeptimus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Inaccurate yes...but this still raises a very important message for the masses:
If you want to professionally create music (or anything else for that matter), get a Mac
End of story - xswag, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Did any of you morons read what was said. Obviously the submitter of this story didn't even read it.
"GarageBand is a popular program that turns a Mac computer into a professional-quality recording studio for musicians."
Doesn't say anything about using it on a PC. Don't just read the title of the story on Digg and make a comment. Take the time to see if its even accurate.
Flagged as Inaccurate!
By the way, GB is not for professional studio mixing. Its for small children and adults that can only point and click on a computer screen. The music that I hear people creating with it is pretty crappy also and sure won't make it on my mp3 player.
Have Fun! - 5678, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Looks like someone at Microsuck got wind of this posting on digg and they have now REMOVED the suggestion that music makers check out Garageband
Here's the page (referenced by digg and shown via the wayback archive) :
http://web.archive.org/web/20060206180652/http://www.microsoft.com/athome/morefun/makemusic.mspx
And here"s the new and current page with the Garageband recommendation removed:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/morefun/makemusic.mspx - Latka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4And let's not forget:
http://www.musix.org.ar/en/index.html
It's a 100% free multimedia operating system intended for music production, graphic design, audio and video edition
Live CD
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
Rosegarden is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.
http://ardour.org/
Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CD's. Mix video soundtracks.
http://ardour.org/files/main-screenshot-big.png
Look at the screenshot and tell me that it doesn't look professional to you :P - mlerner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Don't shoot the messenger. "Article written by Marc Saltzman and adapted from an original piece from Microsoft Home Magazine."
- ClemX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I don't see anything in the GarageBand description on this page that mentions running it on a PC.
- knomevol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i already said thanks - but i have to come back...
wow... i've been playing all morning - those are very, very impressive audio production tools.
thank you very very much for actually taking the time to write down those links, y'all. i sincerely appreciate it.
track 1: [drum] - tap-tap-tap-tap--tap-tap/bass-tap-tap/bass--[rpt]
track 2: [strat] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - electric guitar [moaning]
track 3: [vocal] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [screaming like metallica "don't tread on me!"] NEW FRIENDS ON DIGG!!! - xtremehoops23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i do love my mac, and apparently so does microsoft
- beijingdave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4quote: "....turns a _Mac_ computer into a professional-quality recording studio for musicians."
Don't get me wrong...GarageBand is great and very easy to use. But I might use that line to describe something like Logic or ProTools. - eth3l, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6This proves my theory that any article with the word "Apple" it it can make the front page.
buried for inaccurate - digitarius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3RTFA. They say it's for the Mac. Buried as inaccurate.
- knomevol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3well, anyway...
does anyone know of any opensource sw such as the kind linked to?
i've got audacity running, and it's sweet for mixing, tempo, and pitch shifting and such, but is there more?
(ps: unix) - SabSpeaks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Apple hasn't used the word "Macintosh" in years.
- monosyth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3A lot of people have missed the point: GarageBand doesn't run on a Windows based PC. Yet, an article promoting/marketing Microsoft/Windows on their website is suggesting a user to use the software that otherwise doesn't run on Windows.
- rtini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree with Microsoft on this one. My PC is a MacBook Pro, and I like GaradeBand quite a lot.
- jasonpoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyway, thanks for the recommendation, Microsoft.
Why don't you introduce the iPod, Mac OS X in the category of "Products that can help you have more fun"? -
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