Microsoft puts galaxy at your fingertips

Microsoft Corp. and leading astronomy institutions like the Adler Planetarium in Chicago on Tuesday will offer a free computer program to put the vast reaches of the cosmos at your fingertips.

[Slave to Gates No More]

It will take more than this to get me to switch back to Microsoft from Apple.

[Dennis Carr]

Yes, many an Apple user will curse the darkness, instead of turning on a light!

[Kevin]

The only reason Apple zealots aren't interested in this is because the pre-release wasn't filled with unrelenting hype and an even more unrelenting price tag.

Who wants something incredibly powerful and useful if everyone can afford it?!?

--the Apple Zealot mantra

[MEV]

Give the Windows v Apple a rest! This might just be the impetus I needed to invest in a cross platform software addition to my Mac. It sounds well worth the investment.

[What the Hell]

SO WHAT, I just loaded the XP update on my desktop. Do you think they would have the courtesy to warn users there was a snafu. Now my computer won't start at all, caught in a startup loop and is now blaming it on HP. This is a joke. What good is any of this crap if you can't use it?

[Mikey]

Hey "What the Hell". I've got one better. The MS Windows auto update function was corrupted by MS's latest XP update. Now I can't update windows with patches auto or manual. But I think I'm better off with this situation. I believe they are training golden retrievers to do the XP maintenance programing.

[Jessica]

my, my, my...testy, testy, testy. I own both a Windows and a Mac. The only reason I really love Mac is that they never get a virus, bug, or any damage to the hardware (unless it is loaded onto a widget not recommended by Mac).

If I make it into Chicago this year, I'll be sure to take our daughter to this wild place.

[George]

Parallels software on an Apple will run both MS & Apple OS's. You don't need to spend time diliberating whether this software is " worth it "

It seem a bit more ergonomic than GoogleSky.

[Ladyshakaria]

I love this!

[Chris]

"Microsoft puts galaxy at your fingertips"

What? Just one galaxy?

That does sound like Microsoft though.