It’s often easy to overlook the inner computer workings of a company. At Coexist, we have the pleasure of mixing the designers’ Mac machines, with the Windows PC that the developers use and keeping the battle lines drawn between the two camps. You can’t do this on the server side because at some point the design will need to be developed and moved into the Windows environment.
We, like all growing companies need to upgrade from time to time and the mixed environment we live in can cause some unexpected challenges. One such challenge came to light when we began to move our data to a new location and wouldn’t you know it, Windows didn’t want to handle some of the Mac files. Naturally, we as creative developers found a small shareware application to do the trick.
Why can’t Microsoft and Apple Coexist better? If a small software company can create the fix to a compatibility problem, why can’t the multi-billion dollar Microsoft? It may sound like I’m only blaming Microsoft here, when I really put the blame on both parties. It’s easy to point out the examples of Apple being stubborn, but I don’t believe they’re at fault for this one.
To Apple and Microsoft – Neither one of you is going away, so let’s step up the effort to make those of us who live in a mixed world lives easier!