Let's not revisit those threads. They were so disgusting I damn near dropped off FR until they went away. Thanks.
> And as far as market share, it's closer to 20:1, Windows over OSX. Of course this will probably be construed as an attack on OSX, and yet another sign of hate-mongering...
Not at all -- that's what I said -- Apple has about 5% worldwide to Microsoft's 90%. I think you'll find that's about 20:1 (actually 18:1 but all these numbers are inexact).
In the US only market, it's closer to 10:1.
I don't know what method "netmarketshare.com" uses to get their figures, and I'm not going to analyze it at 3AM, but let's not argue the details. My point up around comment #53 was that it looks damn silly, even stupid, to compare the uptake of Win7 to the uptake of OS-X -- in number of copies sold. Win7 has to blow the doors off OS-X in raw numbers of copies, just to do as well relative to their respective markets. That's all.
I guess I see it differently; it took Vista a lot longer to eclipse OSX, and many Mac adherents used that slow uptake to rally for the advent of OSX (and of course, those misguided Linux fans once again declared 2010 would FINALLY be the year of Linux-on-the-desktop).
It was inevitable that Win7 would overtake OSX; what’s shocking is that in just 8 months it’s tripled OSX. That is some amazingly fast adoption.