Back in the 1st of October, trueb*****dteddy complained of Microsoft's MSN for OS X's bitter shortcomings. Article gets dugg - from both Mac users who feel his pain, and PC users who feel a pain of a completely different sort.

What did TBT say, anyway? "Microsoft doesn't get it" with their "Universal" MSN. Why? He lists his complaints: no video and audio chat, no offline messaging, no groups, and annoying pop up dialogue boxes he doesn't need. In other words, MSN for Macs doesn't perform well compared to PC versions. He thinks that because Apple is such a small niche in the computer market, Mac users aren't a priority for Microsoft - as opposed to that larger Windows base.

Well, since that 1st of October, he'd been deluged with about six-hundred-or-so diggs that he didn't expect, as well as comments that have enlightened him on some of his complaints. Like, for example, one comment told him how to get rid of an annoying security dialog box. Another informed him that Mac-MSN actually supports groups. And the official Microsoft Mac blog released a post explaining some of the reasons why voice for Mac-MSN hasn't been implemented yet. Enlightening, yes, but it still hasn't changed his opinion of Mac-MSN.

But counterarguments can sometimes be a bit touche. After all, one Digg commenter replied "Quicktime for PC: Apple doesn't get it" (although a few replies to that comment were very critical). Another pointed out that "Rome wasn't built overnight," and neither will Mac-MSN.

Ah, all this competition between Apple users and PC users. Remember the Mac Ad? Yeah, it can be wonderful, simply wonderful, to be a cut above the rest. But does that mean you can't ever be with the rest? Nobody wants to be lonely...