For all the bluster from the mac crowd about microsoft, apple still has like 3-4% of the market and microsoft 90%.
What's your point? Bigger is better? You must be in hog heaven, then. Microsoft is really getting huge.
"For all the bluster from the mac crowd about microsoft, apple still has like 3-4% of the market and microsoft 90%."
There is no doubt that Microsoft is a very innovative company and that has made them a market leader. I think where they have fallen short is with security (based in part as I understand it because of their developement paradigm), and their license fetish.
With regards to security, for example, an OS should not be compromised because of an email or a hole in media player, but because (as I understand it) they share code back and forth between apps for developement efficiency (which makes sense), that is what happens.
There is no doubt that Microsoft should reap the reward for the development work (internally and through acquisitions) they have put into the OS. But I think they are going a bit overboard with restricting the ability to move licenses bacause imho, if I have bought the license, I should be able to install it where ever I want (as long as I am not using it in more than one place as I believe if one has one license, it should be used in one place as agreed) and I should not be restricted where I do this.
I am also concerned about the future impact of this on the after market. Even today, there is a glut of hardware out there that is perfectly usable, just not able to run the latest and greatest. Folks can either turn to linux or if they desire to stay Microsoft (which many do), they use an older OS like win95/98//ME/NT. They understand they do not have support for it, but they know what they want to use it for and it works for them. If they have a valid license, why not. It sounds to me with Vista that this kind of approach will not be possible. Personally, I would like to see Microsoft offer some heavily discounted licensing option for the after market, but this is a topic for another thread I am sure.
Does any of this open up the door for Linux or MacOS? Probably not at the moment, but in the future, who knows? Netscape was once on top and now, who uses it?
[b]For all the bluster from the mac crowd about microsoft, apple still has like 3-4% of the market and microsoft 90%.[/b][p]
More Fiats are sold than Ferrari's. I'd rather have the Ferrari, especially if it cousts about the same as the Fiat.
BTW I'm still a Win 98 user my next bos will be a iMac. Runs well and not all th cable nightmares.