According to the article, it was Vista that kept the numbers from being even worse.
The article is wrong on that count. nobody wants a data mining program that pretends to be a buggy operating system.
They always seem to gloss over that, but heck, they won’t let facts get in the way of their MS Bashing.
People don’t realize how hard it is to create an operating system, especially one that has to work with every piece of hardware and software.
Apple has it easy since they control the platform, Linux is good, but their hardware support isn’t that great, and their software base is even more shaky from a user stand point.
(And before any of you linux evangelists jump on me, show me a Linux distro that’s easy to install and remove software and hardware from for the average user that doesn’t require compiling software on the fly)
That seems counter-intuitive. In our case, it was Windows Fistula that pushed us over the edge, and changed Linux from being a tolerable alternative to being the preferred solution.