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To: ShawTaylor
Best of luck catching up at that "9000" per day rate.

Most of those 9,000 new Mac users per day are in the United States, where Microsoft seems to be suffering a net loss of their installed base. Vista should do well in China.

BTW, your link is to a guy that is talking baloney.

The writer, Tom Yager, is the Chief Technologist at Infoworld. Infoworld is a respected weekly journal for professionals in the computer industry for nearly thirty years. What are your credentials?

22 posted on 02/28/2007 9:10:51 PM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: HAL9000
"Most of those 9,000 new Mac users per day are in the United States, where Microsoft seems to be suffering a net loss of their installed base"

Apple had a share of 2.5% in the US in December, and is actually predicted to lose share in Feb and March, due to sharp increases in sales of Windows PC's running Vista:

"In a note to investors, Piper Jaffray & Co analyst Gene Munster said that the pent-up demand for Vista will put more Windows-equipped PCs in customers' hands in the January-March quarter of 2007. That, in turn, means Apple's share of the market will slip slightly, from 2.5 percent in December 2006 to 2.3 percent in March 2007. "

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=8456



"The writer, Tom Yager, is the Chief Technologist at Infoworld"

He has no basis upon which to make that assertion apart from yet another boast from Steve Jobs, that is neither backed by IDC or Dataquest, the two recognized authorities on measuring market share for desktop and server computers.
Tom Yager makes absolutely no claim to have conducted any thorough, detailed research of PC sales by gathering actual sales data like Dataquest and IDC do.
31 posted on 02/28/2007 9:52:25 PM PST by ShawTaylor
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