Wed 22 Mar 2006
News that Vista may be released in early 2007 has generated another set of speculation. Would this help Apple Leopard to capture a huge market share. We need to see this issue in a bigger picture. One of the biggest strengths of Microsoft has been its Marketing. Secondly the user loyalty, apart from the developer community, i am not really sure whether the general users are so much against Windows. The ease with which one can use Windows has always been a secret of success for Windows. Now this small time frame may not tilt the balance in favour of Apple. It is as if to assume that if Microsoft introduces a competitor to iPod, it would eat away the market share of iPod. What i am trying to mean here is, it would take a long long period to convince customers to switch over. Today Apple and Microsoft represent two different set of users, Microsoft derives its strength primarily from a general user market.
Probably the computer manufacturers would be the one to loose sales because of this decision.
Source: CNET
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March 22nd, 2006 at 7:40 am
>The ease with which one can use Windows has always been a secret of success for Windows.
This is an intersting statement. Having been involved in deploying MS Windows products since v3.1 and MacOS since version 1, I see no comparison in ease of use and/or management with Windows. Windows is a kluge - it requires a great deal more support, it is more difficult to configure, the registry is largely a mysterious concept to all but IT professionals and, during my career, I have made roughly three times as much money supporting Windows systems than MacOS, (the cost of this support more than makes up for any money “saved” by going cheap with some no name Windows box).
Training users on MacOS and then supporting them is easier to a factor of ten than it is training users and supporting them on Windows. Windows sells, now, because MS designed it to run on cheap, mass produced and unimaginative machines that sell for little to nothing, (and largely have very poor performace - I mean the Celeron processor most entry level Windows systems have is, basically, a Pentium II - ten year old technology)
From the standpoint of an IT professional that has installed and supported MacOS, Windows, Solaris and Linux systems and servers, Mac is - by far - the easiest to deploy and the least expensive to support. Given a choice, for me, both Solaris and Linux are better and easier systems to deploy and support than Windows networks.
Windows doesn’t sell because it’s the best. It sells because a time long, long ago, in a land far, far away, IBM decided to use MS-DOS as their primary operating system, (when they should have picked C/PM - and it should be brought up here, Microsoft didn’t write MS-DOS, they bought it from a company called “The Seattle Operating System”). Whatever OS IBM had choosen to run on its first personal computers would have become, by default, the most successful operating system in the world - I heard “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”from so many IT professionals when the IBM PC came out so many times when the first IBM machines came out that it is clear that Microsoft became the default OS for moost personal computers because of fear, not because it was the best OS…