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Macs have been rising fast since about 1984.
Although I am not a MS fan, I think the root of the problem is the hardware
MS is the brand, controls the software and makes all the money. At the other end, 1000 hardware makers from HP and Toshiba down to cheap-o Chinese knock off brands compete as commodity supplier whores to merely be the one to run the MS software. Their main tool is only price.
MS windows has its own problems, but I have found that any MS PC has a shelf-life of about 18-24 months before key components start to fail.
Wait one of MS’s big rivals called a statistically insignificant number of their own clients and found they’re increasingly using not MS? Yeah, that certainly spells doom for MS (sarc). Meanwhile at my work we just recently dumped VMWare for Hyper-V.
And 2015 will be the Year of Linux too, right?
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Overwhelming evidence. The kind I always base my market decisions on.< /s>
Being asked to by people who don't understand what's involved in getting a Mac properly integrated into a Windows security domain doesn't translate into it actually happening.
Did that a long time ago and worked out very well.
MAC is the future and a much better OS.
I’ve owned Macs since 1991 (used Windows at work). I had a hard drive go bad in one of my Mac’s after several years of use (and it was a used one to begin with). I do think Mac’s are more reliable - never had a problem - but there are advantages to both platforms. Business Insider is not the most trusted news site for business (or much of anything else). Perhaps this is personal preference she is referring to as MS is entrenched and I don’t see that changing too much until/unless there is a real paradigm shift in the computer world (you know the Israelis developing quantum computing or something like that).
In memory of you, Bill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4PRjO30f
(Still got the same crappy haircut, after all these years...)
Apple has Windows 8 to thank for this. Windows 8 is an abomination of an operating system. The enterprise and SMB have refused to adopt it en mass, and the retail public has been fleeing it as fast as they can, holding on to their XP and W7 systems, and abandoning PCs by the millions in favor of simpler tablets.
The fools running Microsoft did this to themselves when over two years ago tens of thousands of beta testers told them that this was exactly what was going to happen and Microsoft refused to listen. Windows 8 has helped to accelerate the existing trend away from PCs instead of saving it as they claimed would happen and helped to take down every OEM hardware supplier and PC builder dependent on Windows PC sales as well, again as thousands of us predicted over two years ago.
People of the world have endured decades of victimization by Windows operating systems that have been bloated, buggy, balky, fragile and virus prone. Now people finally have alternatives, and none of these alternatives involve Microsoft products. Which is why Microsoft and their partners’ attempts to revive their fortunes by putting Windows on mobile (and bizarre tablet) devices are doomed. People don’t WANT Windows on their mobile devices. They bought their mobile devices precisely because they were fleeing Windows.
For those who still must use Windows because of the applications and the need to do industrial-level work, I’ve consistently steered both my business and consumer clients away from Windows 8 from day one to Windows 7 instead. For a long time now, that hasn’t been a difficult sell as almost everyone by now knows a plethora of friends and neighbors who are profoundly unhappy with their shiny new Windows 8 PCs, or have had the worse misfortune to buy one for themselves against my best advice.
Sounds like another Rush commercial for Apple.
If BSOD hasn't yet "transformed the enterprise," we'll see if the influx of Apple products from the bottom will do so.
Of course, if you can crony up to the Government & have the upgrades paid for where cost is not a consideration, that would help .....
I can vouch for that, but they are currently only about 1%, I doubt they will grow more than 3%
I can’t use a Mac. I’m a heterosexual.
Most new software written as web apps, anyway. Pretty soon all you’ll need is a browser and you can take your pick - windows, apple, Linux, etc ...
This is absolute BS. What IT department is going to allow an employee to bring in their PC? How are they to know that the machine is patched, has the correct virus version installed and would let a foreign machine join the domain. Joining a PC to AD is a two step process, to do the same with a MAC requires a lot of hurdles to jump through. What about malware? I'm sure in this author's world you can just hook up a MAC to the network and everything is peachy; it is not.
I'm sure my IT department would love to have to add another device to support. It was bad enough when the users wanted us to supply them with Iphones, since they're issued phones to I don't know, make phone calls and be available when on call. You can do that with any phone. I told the idiot to do a cost benefit analysis and that was the last I heard of it.
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Today, that MacBook is for sale on EBay with about seven hours left to go and the high bid is less than $700.
The first problem with the MacBook Pro was that it was a hassle getting it to recognize my CAC card reader. Then I got tired of guessing whether I could just touch the mouse pad or had to push the center so it would click. I personally thought the thing was a hassle to use.
I finally bought a new Windows machine from Amazon for a little over $300 and it runs Windows 7. The OS recognized my CAC card reader without me having to do anything but plug it in. When this computer dies or gets slow I can just throw it away and find another cheap Windows machine.