Talk:Apple Productivity Experience Group/Archives/2013

Better title suggestion

I suggest we move this article to "Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit", in order to be more descriptive and clear what it's all about. Anybody disagree? Peter S. 22:48, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

mac specific apps

I changed it to say that it's the largest developers of macintosh-specific software, because other companies develop software that runs on the mac that have more than 180 people working on it (Adobe, Blizzard, etc.), but whereas photoshop, WoW, etc. are cross-platform, some of Microsoft's apps like Office 2008, Mac Messenger, or (formerly) Internet Explorer for Mac, have a version that works on windows and a separate version that's built to utilise certain features on mac OS X rather than just porting the windows version. (IE Mac Messenger makes use of the system-wide spellchecker and has separate independent windows where windows live messenger uses one window and simulates other windows, Microsoft office seems hell-bent on adopting aqua, more-so even than apple, etc.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by !!!Chris!!! (talk • contribs) 07:21, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

The article doesn't claim that they are the largest developer, just that they are one of the largest developers. Also if you want to make the claim that Adobe, etc have more Mac developers then please provide a source to back that up. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 11:47, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Companies like Adobe, Blizzard, etc. simply write a version that works on both operating systems or port from one operating system to the other, meaning that those versions get the full development team working on them. Whereas the mac version of Office or Messenger is coded and maintained by a seperate team (the MBU) from the windows versions of Office or Messenger, meaning that those apps only get developed by the MBU team in microsoft, not the full development force of microsoft. I'd give you figures, but i don't know where to get them. Chris (talk) 19:49, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorry but you aren't telling us anything we don't already know. My point was that the article doesn't claim that Microsoft is the largest Mac software developer. It just says it is "one of the" largest. Which is accurate even if Adobe or Blizzard or whoever have more developers contributing to their projects. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 22:44, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Removed links

• A Look at Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit – a profile of the MacBU by Jim Dalrymple for MacCentral September 24, 2001
• Virtual Tour of the Mac BU – photos from the Mac BU at Microsoft posted by Mac BU employee David Weiss on April 19, 2006

Also removed a link to the blog, but that's on the main site anyway.

Also, there was just a link to it in "references" but it doesn't seem to cover what the article currently says:

• Macworld Expo San Francisco 2005

Ryan Norton 05:05, 25 August 2010 (UTC)