<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=726946">http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=726946</A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">*******</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">The overwhelming consensus was that Tiger was far and away the best consumer operating system available now, with Microsoft not expected to match it in features in Windows until the end of 2006 at the earliest in its "Longhorn" system.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Gates said he was pleased that the media were getting excited about computer operating systems. And then he took his jab at Apple, whose share of the consumer market is nearly 4 percent.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">"You can always tell if you're working on a Mac or a PC. Just take your applications and stick them in there and see if they run," he said, moments after calling Apple "the super-small market share guy."</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">**********</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Not sure about you all.. but all my Applications work just fine on my mac :-) </SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">kansast</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>