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Let MS Secure your Mac

ms-appleYou've really got to be careful when you use stock art these days. Take for example Microsoft's Events and Webcasts page, which sports a happy looking bloke, starring into what is obviously an Apple Titanium PowerBook. It's a pet peve, of mine, I guess.

Sure the logo has been skillfully photoshop'd out, but that shape is unmistakable nonetheless. Perhaps Microsoft is just trying to tell us that we'll be happier if we attend their conferences with a Mac. Perhaps their Web production folks should check their stock art more carefully -- or at least venture out of Redmond long enough to recognize the competition.