
Microsoft partners wowed with Snow Leopard, as analysts say ‘dump Zune’.
August 26th, 2009 admin

Microsoft is big, really big, and because it is so big it has lots of ‘friends’, some of which it calls ‘Channel Partners’. And many of those Channel Partner ‘friends’ seem pretty impressed…by Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard (which ships Friday, folks).
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IMpaitent to buy one as all models are looking cool.