These articles are funny. We can all relate to liking something niche, and running up against a brick wall trying to convince others it's "better".
The market has clearly spoken "Microsoft is better" when it comes to what OS the vast majority of businesses will even consider using. They don't care one whit about Apple and OSX. Not one.
Those of you who live and breathe Apple apparently believe your kind are everywhere. I don't think you realize how comparatively rare your kind is. I deal with about 250 businesses on my courier route and only the ad firms and color houses use Apple (which confirms that legend as true). Everywhere else it's a Windows World.
And due to these threads I will often ask people if they use Apple or know anyone who does. Rarely do they answer in the affirmative. I even suggest to people shopping for a new computer to check out the iMacs. They always kindly decline as if that isn't possibly an option.
Anecdotal evidence, to be sure, but I must not be alone in observing it because market share backs it up, "OSX is better" be damned.
"Microsoft is better" until there is a vicious computer virus that attacks a number of computer OS's or server networks and then there is one huge panic attack to go and get the latest sercurity patch.
As a member of the Mac club, I am happy to say that my OS X Tiger has been doing me good for nearly a year.
There's a lot more than "better" involved in this. It all starts when IBM, with a virtual monopoly in business computers, licensed MS-DOS for its new personal computer line. Ten years later, almost all businesses were using it and its compatible successors, and that filtered to the consumers. Then add some anti-competitive, monopolistic practices of Microsoft itself, and in the end you have a massive amount of market inertia that is extremely hard to overcome. Even not releasing an upgrade to their consumer OS for six years barely slowed it down, and that OS now is inferior in every single way to OS X.
Actually what the market said was "Microsoft is cheaper to buy". Which usd to be absolutely true. Now it is a toss-up.
But, along with that "cheaper to buy" computer came the need for a pretty sizable IT department to keep it running. A wise old man once told me that in any company the big costs "walk on two legs". Save a grand on each computer and spend a grand on IT salary every year.
Now that IT departments are pretty firmly entrenched, companies are not going to switch to Macs -- ever. The IT people are the ones who now make that decision and no one is going to make 2/3 of his staff unnecessary overnight.
I use Windows at work, and can make it work, but I use Mac at home. When I retire in a few months, it will be about a 90-10 Mac household. DW maintains a few websites and we have to run Windows to check how they look.
I work for a government contractor and actually consider using Windows to be an ethics violation. People charge the hours they spend dealing with Windows to the contract, If they ran Macs, they would spend many fewer hours dealing with the computer and more hours doing something with it.
Almost everyone I know who actually uses a computer to make money at home uses both systems, and prefers the Mac because it is faster to use and easier.
Surely you don't think that bigger market share always equals higher quality, do you?
Does McDonald's make the best hamburgers in the country?
Does Ernest & Julio Gallo make the best wine? Is Budweiser the best beer?