businessweek.com— A recent upgrade to the Mac operating system moves Apple closer to challenging Microsoft for overall computing dominance, even in the corporate market
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If Microsoft does somehow manage to create an update that has the stability and hardware support of XP SP2, they may save themselves. But is that going to happen? Judging from what has been said by people who have worked there recently and even people who work there currently, Microsoft has huge problems internally. They are mismanaging themselves to failure. Microsoft as a company has huge problems, and if they don't solve them, they will probably not be able to produce quality products.I can think of many ways Microsoft can fix their technical problems and create great products. But as a company they are not capable of that at the moment. It's going to take a huge shakeup to save Microsoft.
If you consider my sys admin at work has to know everyone's password to gain access to the machine (mac office).... And he has to personally have physical access to the machine in question to do anything.... This is not efficient. Windows is made to remotely roll-out network-wide changes. And it's done. The Mac admin... has lost his weekend.
I'd call this good news -- that Leopard and Ubuntu are digging into the market share previously dominated by XP and Vista is a good thing ... healthy competition in business only leads to product improvement and cheaper prices for the consumer -- it can only mean that Microsoft will make doubly sure that Windows 7 won't be another flop like Vista ...
Stop complaining that the article isn't technically correct. Of course it takes more than Spaces to make it work. Obviously you need VMware/Parallels. That's not the point. The point is that it is very easy to run Windows and Windows apps on a Mac. Many people need that safety net. In fact, it will draw people to the Mac that will in practice not run Windows on the Mac, but they feel good it's possible.
So are you suggesting that OSX should stay with the same market share just because you feel somehow elitist using it? Give me a f**king break, being OS elitist wasn't even cool when it was a Linux user trend.
<a class="user" href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/04/apple_win32_support/,">http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/04/apple_win3 ...</a> but thats not the orignal one I read, I actuall read one on digg about 2 weeks after lepoard came out, look I hate apple I really do but truth be told they have a good product and you must be stupid to think they wouldent be putiting WIN API support in thier OS its A) Not enabled and B) Not functional, they are positioning themselves carefully so when the time comes they can legally and realistically say "You can now run your windows apps naitvley on a Mac" Tell me im wrong just do it.
phoompApr 11, 2008
Inspiron 530s starts at $350 including Vista Home Basic. Specs aren't quite as nice as TBerrigan's Newegg, but it's still a fairly inexpensive PC running the basic version of MS's latest OS.<a class="user" href="http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspndt_530s?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs">http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetail ...</a>
ucg1Apr 11, 2008
If Microsoft does somehow manage to create an update that has the stability and hardware support of XP SP2, they may save themselves. But is that going to happen? Judging from what has been said by people who have worked there recently and even people who work there currently, Microsoft has huge problems internally. They are mismanaging themselves to failure. Microsoft as a company has huge problems, and if they don't solve them, they will probably not be able to produce quality products.I can think of many ways Microsoft can fix their technical problems and create great products. But as a company they are not capable of that at the moment. It's going to take a huge shakeup to save Microsoft.
Closed AccountApr 11, 2008
If you consider my sys admin at work has to know everyone's password to gain access to the machine (mac office).... And he has to personally have physical access to the machine in question to do anything.... This is not efficient. Windows is made to remotely roll-out network-wide changes. And it's done. The Mac admin... has lost his weekend.
avangionqApr 12, 2008
I'd call this good news -- that Leopard and Ubuntu are digging into the market share previously dominated by XP and Vista is a good thing ... healthy competition in business only leads to product improvement and cheaper prices for the consumer -- it can only mean that Microsoft will make doubly sure that Windows 7 won't be another flop like Vista ...
ucg1Apr 12, 2008
you're forgetting *BSD and an old version of BeOS :)
udahlenApr 12, 2008
Stop complaining that the article isn't technically correct. Of course it takes more than Spaces to make it work. Obviously you need VMware/Parallels. That's not the point. The point is that it is very easy to run Windows and Windows apps on a Mac. Many people need that safety net. In fact, it will draw people to the Mac that will in practice not run Windows on the Mac, but they feel good it's possible.
Closed AccountApr 13, 2008
So are you suggesting that OSX should stay with the same market share just because you feel somehow elitist using it? Give me a f**king break, being OS elitist wasn't even cool when it was a Linux user trend.
Closed AccountApr 16, 2008
Then I insist that he gets somebody with more knowledge to read over his work before it gets posted.
nickert0nApr 17, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/04/apple_win32_support/,">http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/04/apple_win3 ...</a> but thats not the orignal one I read, I actuall read one on digg about 2 weeks after lepoard came out, look I hate apple I really do but truth be told they have a good product and you must be stupid to think they wouldent be putiting WIN API support in thier OS its A) Not enabled and B) Not functional, they are positioning themselves carefully so when the time comes they can legally and realistically say "You can now run your windows apps naitvley on a Mac" Tell me im wrong just do it.