As one who hates, loathes, and f*rts in the general direction of Microsoft, I must admit that windows 7 (used at work) is not bad at all. It’s interesting, however, that our company now allows employees to choose their computers every replacement cycle - and PC populations are diminishing as fast as children in liberal households.
This is not to exonerate Apple, however, Mountain Lion had a number of very irritating “improvements”, and iOS7’s new graphics make me think they’re hiring the engineers that Microsoft fired.
Of course that software isn't compatible with Windows 7.
Give it time. They'll go back to PCs in short order. Or, at the least, they'll opt for Chromebooks or Linux workstations.
Our company adopted a similar tack a few years ago. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on Apple devices for entire departments. As IT security started to increase their enforcement of policies, those with Apple devices were most likely to be found in violation. Apple devices do not play nice in Windows-based environments such as Active Directory without using MDM and other Apple-proprietary device management tools. Add to that the problem of finding competent techs, and more often than not, departments, slowly at first, began transitioning back to PCs and Linux machines due to better compatibility with back-end infrastructure.
Apple is great for play time. They're great for design and marketing. They are NOT great nor do they perform at the same cycles-per-dollar rate as PCs (generally, not Windows, specifically) for office automation, computer programming, administration, or large scale deployments. Apple will never break out into corporate business due to initial cost and total cost of ownership.
I can pull 15 - 20 fresh-out-of-high-school techie kids into an IT call center or a desktop support team and put them to work on PCs and Windows with little concern, but you'll have a hard time finding a true Mac expert in that crowd, and God forbid they break any of the components in/on an Apple device.