“Conflicker only hit those who had not installed updated in months.”
Or had no antivirus software in place, I agree. And even though it was addressed by Microsoft in a timely manner, still the perception is that organizations with limited dollars are better off going another way, even if it costs them more in up front costs. They see dealing with Microsoft products as being insecure, buggy, and bit behind in taking advantage of high performance hw out there. No, I’m not kidding about that. It surprises me that Mac is being seen as ahead in performance, but that is what I am hearing on the street.
Which is why 7 is so very important to MS. And so far the word from most people,MAC users included, is that it performance exceeds there expectations. This OS spells trouble for Apple in that it dispells the Vista perception and will be hard to downplay even though it may or may not be a better OS overall than OS X, for MS it just has to be better than XP and Vista which it is by a mile.