ben robison

Microsoft vs. Apple

Just had an interesting experience that I found mildly humourous. Maybe I’m a little cynical about Microsoft at the moment (I just read a negative review for Office for Mac 08 at AppleInsider) but I thought I’d share a story about attention to detail.

I just noticed that the clock on my XP machine was an hour behind. Having just passed daylight savings time a week ago, I make the assumption that it hasn’t yet reset itself. So I open the properties box and make sure it’s set to automatically retrieve time from time.windows.com. It was. I forced the time sync, waited for about 45 seconds and was told that it couldn’t sync to that time server.

I opened System Preferences on my Macbook, to see what time server it synced to. I switched my XP box to sync to time.apple.com, it immediately refreshed and now my clock tells correct time. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions =)