{"id":2296,"date":"2004-03-04T02:30:06","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/04\/fedex-making-the-switch\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:41:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:41:01","slug":"fedex-making-the-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/04\/fedex-making-the-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"FedEx making The Switch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11609,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macrumors.com\\\/pages\\\/2004\\\/03\\\/20040303031644.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20061022111405\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.macrumors.com\\\/pages\\\/2004\\\/03\\\/20040303031644.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.macrumors.com\\\/pages\\\/2004\\\/03\\\/20040303031644.shtml&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 15:13:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-07 02:29:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-07 02:29:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11610,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/forums.macrumors.com\\\/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=62845&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11611,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/forums.macrumors.com\\\/showpost.php?p=733973&amp;postcount=46&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Interesting rumor via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/pages\/2004\/03\/20040303031644.shtml\" title=\"FedEx Switching to Mac?\">MacRumors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  According to one unconfirmed source, Federal Express may be looking to make a significant purchase of Macs to replace their current PCs.<\/p>\n<p>  Reportedly, the move is under consideration due to the recent wave of viruses that have swept the PC world.<\/p>\n<p>  While Macs are not inherently immune to virus attacks, most viruses have been written on the Windows\/PC platform.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, this is &#8220;one unnamed source&#8221;, so it could easily be entirely fictitious, but it&#8217;s interesting to think about, at the very least.<\/p>\n<p>As an added bonus, the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=62845\" title=\"FedEx Switching to Mac?\">MacRumors discussion thread<\/a> for this item has a much higher signal-to-noise ratio than what I&#8217;m used to seeing in their forums, and I found this wonderful little point buried within, from <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showpost.php?p=733973&amp;postcount=46\" title=\"Oh, come on.\">MisterMe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;there is more evidence for ghosts, UFOs, and Big Foot than there is for MacOS X viruses. People have actually reported seeing ghosts, UFOs, and Big Foot.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Thunder Kiss &#8217;65 (Swinging Lovers)&#8221; by White Zombie from the album <em>Nightcrawlers: The K.M.F.D.M. Remixes<\/em> (1992, 4:46).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to one unconfirmed source, Federal Express may be looking to make a significant purchase of Macs to replace their current PCs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}