"No it won't, the market already shows that people prefer Windows to Mac OS."
With respect, it only shows that M$ was better at marketing and staying away from proprietary hardware.
When will you folks learn that using M$ only shows your socialist bias? It's just like when a liberal calls President Bush a shrub. I believe in free trade and capitalism, what say you? Why don't you have a cute little phrase for Apple? They are far more proprietary and over-priced than Microsoft.
I make a living with *nix, but prefer Windows for my home computer because we use our home computer for more than surfing the web and writing letters.
That, and that people are too afraid (or to lazy) to try and understand how their computer actually works.
But marketing plays a very important role, more so even than technology. The key was to see to the corporate executives that MS was what they needed. Once they had the executives, then they went after the third party software manufacturers. At that point they had a "web" of support that no other company could beat. Even though their technology was far behind that of the others.
If the technology was what actually drove the market, Novell would still be the leader. But they couldn't market space heaters to eskimos. And that's why they're going down the tubes. Heck, how often do you have to reboot a Windows system, especially a server? At work, we've got nearly 200 Windows servers, and we schedule them to restart once a week. While most don't need it, it seems that if some of them go more than 2 weeks between reboots they get flaky. My Novell NetWare 6 server gets rebooted when I need to patch it (something I haven't needed to do in a few years), but it will be going down tomorrow: The battery in the UPS has had it, and I need to swap it out. The last time that server went down was when I shut it down during an ice storm, and my home lost power for 8 days. Something I really can't blame on the software.
Mark