And in the "Who Were The Ad Wizards Who Came Up With THIS One?" department, faithful viewer Michael McKinney informs us that Microsoft has just unleashed MSN for Mac OS X. Yes, folks, if you prefer the Mac to Windows but you've still got a hankerin' to tether yourself to Redmond's warmed-over clone of AOL, life just doesn't get any better than this. Because, you see, MSN is miles ahead of any other online service out there because it's "built on advanced Microsoft technology." Shiver me timbers!
Just how incredibly stupendous is this "advanced Microsoft technology," you ask? Well, MSN for Mac OS X lets you "communicate better"! How, you ask? By boasting an incredible email component that includes advanced features like the ability to send rich-text email (oooooh), a preview pane (aaaaah), multiple folders in which to store mail (just pretend you keep hearing gasps of awe, okay?), a spell-checker, junk mail filtering, and an address book that "can contain multiple email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, personal data, and even pictures." Even pictures? Heavens to Murgatroyd, sign us up! Unless, of course, someone can think of any way we can do all that incredible stuff with software already on our Macs and any freakin' ISP on the planet...
Ahhh... good times. Actually, though, we may kid, but it really is nice to have MSN available for our operating system of choice, because it might represent one fewer obstacle preventing certain Windows users from switching to the Mac. We imagine there might be some potential switchers out there who really want to make the jump to our platform, but don't want to give up their existing stellar MSN service. There's probably at least a couple of people like that out there, right? Somewhere?...