5/31/06 author: Dippity Dawg As it has been reported that Apple employees went to the WinHEC trade show to keep tabs on what Microsoft was up to and planning, Apple has finally understood a good portion of their failure to compete with Microsoft. It's the old saying, bad publicity is better than no publicity. Microsoft is branded and beaten into our brains as being equivalent with the computer industry, even if most of the news is bad, they still have the stigma of "computers" more than any other. In their wisdom, Apple has decided that making cool products, protecting security and making a solid OS has hurt their marketshare, because the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Let's face it, who reports on nothing much going on? Apple is delving into the Microsoft world to make clunky interfaces and loosening their control on the OS to make sure it can get infected with viruses, even if Apple creates them themselves to insure that every user has a miserable experience. It will be big enough to be in the news. They have been testing this theory with iPods not working out of the box, breaking after a year and scratches. Now they will attack their entire line of products. As long as all the users scream at one time, Apple and the Mac will be touted all over the web and from main stream media outlets on tv and on the radio. Apple will stop at nothing to gain marketshare and to hear their name on the news, including having court filings to get there. They may finally have found the true answer to fight the Microsoft beast - suck. Prior: Apple Price Point Gets Better