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biofriendlyblogJan 13, 2011
It was bound to happen eventually.
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
I literally came to this page to say the same Exact phrase.
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
not that anyone gives a s**t
amaoicanJan 14, 2011
You literally came?
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
funny.
mynameisjoeJan 14, 2011
It hasn't happened yet.
customcomputersJan 13, 2011
It will fall more if they do not get a CEO with vision who can work ahead of the curve. Counting beans and presiding over a continueing brain drain made for successful quarters to enhance stock value slightly while current CEO sold stock positions for personal gain.
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
yes...and you are CLEARLY an expert.
amaoicanJan 14, 2011
He must be. He's got the word 'computers' in his name.
superkendallJan 14, 2011
He's worlds more intelligent than someone who can't even spell "american".
amaoicanJan 14, 2011
Quick, can anyone give me a ride to the burn unit?
In all seriousness, I came up with the user ID while I was teaching in China, which coincided with the Obama honeymoon period. Conveys the ideas of "American", "Mao" and "I Can".
In the same line, "I wanna wish you Americharisma!"
And:
"If you love Christmas so much, why don't you marry it?"
"Marry Christmas?"
"Merry Christmas to you, too!"Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
msbpodcastJan 13, 2011
Their market share ON THE DESKTOP is as secure as it ever was.
Its just that they'll never get any other market.
They were such bastards in getting into the desktop trap that they'll never be able to leverage their OS into a strategic advantage.
People will neither forget nor forgive the CONVICTION on the change of anti-trust violation.
Its going to be Android and iOS before its going to be Windows [whatever they want to add to it.]Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
dlesageJan 13, 2011
> they'll never get any other market
Look up "XBox 360" sometime.
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
Or MS Office.
tao52nycJan 14, 2011
What market share does Office have on phones and pads? That's where the future is. Office is for corporate accounts. Consumers need it less and less.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
negativeoneJan 14, 2011
Why do you say that like corporate is a small market? "[Mobile] is the future" is a buzz statement. Consumer markets are fickle and not particularly faithful, so having a strong grip on the corporate market will better guarantee your prosperity.
tao52nycJan 14, 2011
XBox doesn't dominate their market, not by a long shot. And they burned $8 billion to get what they have. They'll be digging out of that hole for another decade. That's why MSFT stock is flat.
vinetariJan 14, 2011
somebody typed out heir comments using a mac :P
wilhoitmJan 14, 2011
No, he was probably using an iPad! ;P
frygarJan 14, 2011
Don't know why you're being dugg down. Oh yeah, hearing the truth is like chewing on tinfoil to the microsoft faithful.
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
Right, because they've made money on XBox... only recently.
$524 million in income over the past six months, compared to $423 million in losses over the same period last year... and every year before that.
They've made MILLIONS! after how many Billions of losses on it?
Is it a great product? Yes. I want one, but don't tell me they've made much on the product as a sign of success.
frygarJan 14, 2011
It ain't that great. Google "Voice Data Collection Xbox" - and see if that doesn't curb your enthusiasm just a smidge.
At least Sony and Nintendo don't actively spy on their users, exclusives be damned.
frygarJan 14, 2011
Yep. It's still getting curb-stomped by the "great-second-console" (Ballmer's words, not mine!) Wii and is only about five million or so ahead of the PS3. They should be doing much, MUCH better.
amaoicanJan 14, 2011
Wii is to video games as Atari was to board games, but some dumbass will think I'm saying Wii "is vastly superior" to PS3/360/etc. which is not what I'm saying at all.
What I'm saying is Wii is the first step toward a new category.
frygarJan 14, 2011
Agreed. Great hardware /= great system. RROD (still present even in the slim models - FFS microsoft, learn to QA your products) is proof of that.
charlotte_webJan 14, 2011
That crown goes to Nintendo, not Microsoft.
amaoicanJan 14, 2011
The gaming market is finicky. Ask Atari, Sega, Nintendo (once out, now back in .. for now) and Sony (PS2: best selling VG console ever! PS3: Well... it plays blu-rays)Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
hamncheeseJan 14, 2011
Sorry, they don't "dominate" there either.
vohkJan 13, 2011
While I like your spirit, I feel obliged to point out that most people don't even know they got (sorta) nailed under anti-trust regs, let alone care. Most people familiar with the industry, sure, but that's a relatively small % of actual technology users.
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
obviously even HE doesn't even know about the anti-trsut case, since he is clearly under the impression that it was about MS getting an unfair advantage FOR Windows, when it was about them getting an unfair advantage WITH Windows...LONG after it had achieved its dominance legally.
hamncheeseJan 14, 2011
They were using their Windows monopoly unfairly. I don't think anyone was really arguing this fact.
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
wow...such ignorance, msbpodcast...you have no idea what Microsoft got convicted of...(Hint: IT had NOTHING to do with the rise of Windows.)
People will not forgive it? 99.999999999999% already have. Because they didn't care about it in the first place because it did not hurt them. The only thing MS's monopolitstic behavior did was make it to users didn't have to delete the terrbile Netscape browser off their computers after Dell or Gateway bundled it.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
WWZJan 13, 2011
Oh, no. What ever will they do?
kolop1Jan 13, 2011
Apple is going to take over? I've been hearing this since at least 1995. Until you can buy a new Mac for under $400 at Wal-Mart...keep dreaming.
evoldicaJan 13, 2011
Yeah.. Your product isn't successful until white trash can buy it cheaply.
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
What is even more pathetic are people who think Macs are BETTER because they are not affordable to most people.
evoldicaJan 14, 2011
Not affordable to most people. I'm not sure Macs fit in that category. For the Walmart crowd maybe birth control would help make Macs more affordable. For some of the Digg crowd obviously that doesn't apply. ;) I don't think they are better because they cost more btw... It just works. No BS.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
isa9191Jan 14, 2011
wat?
superkendallJan 14, 2011
Macs are affordable to anyone, because it's way cheaper to buy a computer once and use it for several years rather than having something that dies or is unusable within a few...Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
gdj11Jan 19, 2011
The only computers at my office that have completely died are Macs. Just recently a MacBook Pro that was only 3 years old had the hard drive completely crash and die. The owner didn't back anything up and lost all of his new baby's home videos.
diggalfJan 14, 2011
I can certainly afford a Mac; I'm just not interested in buying something that has a fraction of the capability of a traditional PC, or in buying a "luxury good" for the sake of stroking my ego.
jpdeveerJan 14, 2011
For my usage Mac is cheaper and better. In music recording, PC based systems that can run the required software are exponential more expensive and prone to crashing. I have done side by side comparisons.
hamncheeseJan 14, 2011
No, they are better because they are better. They just happen to cost more as well.
On a related note, my BMW costs more than a Chevy.
takamalakJan 13, 2011
That's like being proud to have cornered the manure market.
dauntless1Jan 14, 2011
Yeah, who'd be proud of a hundred million dollar industry? Idiot.
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
Apple made 20 BILLION last quarter. They have over 80 Billion in the Bank. It isn't that I really care, but you are off by a few zeros with regard to Microsoft.
The fact of the matter is, their market share is shrinking, and Apple has a larger Market Cap. at 302 Billion.
dauntless1Jan 14, 2011
I was talking about the manure industry. But misinterpret away.
wilhoitmJan 14, 2011
Tell them FrankenMac! Actually it has gone from 302 Billion to 320 Billion with the anticipation and release of the Verizon iPhone!
frygarJan 14, 2011
I'm no Mac fan, but they officially passed MS as the leading tech company in the world back in 2009. For whatever that's worth.
representdlvJan 14, 2011
How so?
frygarJan 15, 2011
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64P5PE20100526
They also basically re-invented the music industry.
robbh66Jan 14, 2011
1995?
tao52nycJan 14, 2011
Mac domestic market share has gone from 3.5% to 10%. I don't care whether they are affordable to "most people" or not. Neither is a Porsche. Apple market CAP is equal to Microsoft's. They're doing all the right things, while MSFT desperately clings to past glory. Stick a fork in it. The company has lost its mojo. The asteroid is on its way and the mammals are biding their time, waiting for the dinosaur to die.
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
Funny, I've been hearing how Apple was going to fail since 1992.
macewanJan 14, 2011
Pft, Apple does just fine with 5'ish% market share if you follow their earnings reports.
wilhoitmJan 14, 2011
Apple has already taken over. I am surprised you haven't noticed it! APPL market capitalization is 320 Billion, MSFT 240 Billion, GOOG 200 Billion. GOOG will probably eclipse MSFT sometime in 2011.
hamncheeseJan 14, 2011
Until you can buy a Mercedes for $20,000, Mercedes will fail.
Um, no.
kolop1Jan 14, 2011
Where did I said Apple would fail? You moron.
enantiodromiaJan 14, 2011
enjoy your race to the bottom. i have a pile of s**tty cheapo Windows laptops in my garage. Let me know where to send them.
jacquelynekJan 15, 2011
LOL. I have a few old windows machines in the closet too. I have NO idea what to do with them. Add me to the list on where to send them.
bozziolJan 13, 2011
well, I probably have different understanding of the term dominance, because I simply cannot see how it is starting to fade. Also, it's not macs that grow more popular but smartphones, as macos' market share growth is still almost insignificant and that will simply never change unless apple will start selling hardware at reasonable prices, which will happen only after Jobs will retire.
sab0tageJan 13, 2011
Tablets shouldn't count, at least iPad style consumption devices shouldn't; they don't replace desktops, they replace newspapers.
jameswjroseJan 14, 2011
Don't the replace some of both newspapers and laptops, maybe a few desktops?
enantiodromiaJan 14, 2011
I know quite a lot of sysadmins who only use their iPads when home, to ssh in to their servers to do their work. Many don't even tough their work laptops once they get home anymore, since they can ssh and control their entire EC2 clusters, right from their iPads.
It could be that you don't know what you are talking about.
sab0tageJan 14, 2011
I've used my mobile phone to RDP to the servers I administer on a few occasions, not by choice of course. Anyway, you haven't disproved that laptops aren't being replaced by tablets, as these sysadmins you know have them in addition to laptops, apparently! Using ssh on an iPad doesn't change the fact that they aren't used for content creation and don't replace PCs.
confuciussayJan 14, 2011
The data is bs. You can't compare windows desktop against mobile devices. Windows is still 90% & king on the desktop.
eadnamsJan 14, 2011
and desktop sales continue to give way to portables(laptops), and to some extent, mobile.
Will there still be Desktops in the future? Sure, and people like us (power users) will use them to create content and such. But the average user is a consumer now, not a creator. Times have changed, computing success is based on simplicity/ease of use, not power/versatility.
mynameisjoeJan 14, 2011
They are just looking at Internet market share, so it is a fair comparison. When you look at Internet share every device that browses the Internet should be counted. If you are taking about unit sales, you are correct. Of course Windows would have below 50% market share if cell phones and other mobile were included by that metric. However most people much more time browsing the internet on a computer than their phone, so Windows accounts the lion's share of Internet browsing. I suppose the title is somewhat misleading because you think of desktop and notebook sales when you talk about Window's market share.
charlotte_webJan 14, 2011
Feasibly, a tablet device could replace a desktop computer for most people who only use a PC to surf the web, check email, and do some light gaming. If you need a keyboard, you can dock it into a keyboard base.
A lot of people use a laptop as their primary computer... is it so inconceivable that many will go the next step and ditch their laptop for a tablet?
gamben0Jan 14, 2011
Long live the king.
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
starting to fade....because it is CLOSE to dipping below 90%? And this by just one measurement...and it is dropping VERY slowly? And by the way, MAcs are not increasing..so it is not that.
charlotte_webJan 14, 2011
Actually, Mac OS marketshare has been growing over the last few years because of iOS devices.
anomaly100Jan 14, 2011
Inevitable.
ren1999Jan 14, 2011
With Windows Phone 7 transferring phantom data and customers being charged for it, it is time for Microsoft to go away.
And Android is successful and free!
IPad is a success.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
charlotte_webJan 14, 2011
I don't think it's time for MS to go away, but they certainly are no longer the unstoppable juggernaut that they were in the 90's. They've had a lot of trouble establishing themselves in several markets that they intended to take away from other companies (notably Apple), and are losing one market that they really wanted to pioneer (tablet computing).
If anything, it's probably time for Ballmer to go away. He still thinks that the market is going to come back around and embrace Windows on tablets.
dumptakerJan 14, 2011
Yeah, because 89% doesn't count as "dominant"
diggwithaforkJan 14, 2011
Good riddance! I welcome the new contenders to the market. However, I'm not looking forward to losing the "standardization" that MS's dominance has brought us in the last decade. It's hard enough trying to help someone with their Windows computer, especially when you're trying to help them remotely. If there are a dozen different operating systems around, trying to help someone is going to be next to impossible without being able to say things like "Click the start button, then run, then type CMD<enter>"Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
mhuntJan 14, 2011
Rather than start / run, just hit the windows key and 'r' (either at the same time, or sequentially).
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
It all depends on what you consider 'market share', I wouldn't consider a smartphone or tablet or a pc/laptop as sharing the same market.
mynameisjoeJan 14, 2011
The market in question is Internet browsing. The study is looking at what OS's people are using the most to browse the Internet. Smart phones, tablets, desktops, and laptops all compete in that market.
jcannonbJan 14, 2011
Windows is a great gaming OS. Other than that, I haven't touched WIndows for anything non-game related in 5 years.
hipmanJan 14, 2011
And that's great for you.If I had the time or energy to play with scripts and commands I'd agree.
jcannonbJan 14, 2011
Scripts? Uh no. Not anymore. I did that for a while too...
Windows from its birth until 2005
Linux as desktop from 2005-2006
MacBook Pro 2006 to present.
No scripts to mess with on Mac for --- home use.
Granted I mess with terminals, scripts and the like all the time at work, but I get paid to work on Linux at work.
Mac at home.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
eadnamsJan 14, 2011
yup.
Power/Versatility: Linux
Games: Windows
Productivity/Work: OSX
Consumption: iOS or Android
jcannonbJan 14, 2011
I agree.
Mac at home
Mac at work, linux on servers at work
iPhone for work and home
iPad
I will get an iPad 2 when they arrive, I will buy a Xoom for the techno-whore side of me to try it, but that will be it.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
totalrunaroundJan 14, 2011
You know what a sample size of one is worth? It's worth a punch in your face for being so stupid and buying overpriced crap. People like you shop at the Sharper Image.
jcannonbJan 14, 2011
and people like you are jealous because I can afford it.
I will pay for a better experience any day as long as I can.
hipmanJan 14, 2011
At least for what you think or been told is a better experience.Windows is just fine.But to each their own.
thefirewireJan 14, 2011
"At least for what you think or been told is a better experience.Windows is just fine.But to each their own."
Being told he is having a better experience? Are you retarded? Wait, You are retarded because I am telling you that you are.
hipmanJan 14, 2011
whaa?...
jcannonbJan 14, 2011
hipman, no one tells me I am having a better experience on an Apple platform, it is how I experience it. I am saying I have a better experience.
No one can tell anyone else what their experiences are. Experience is just that, an experience.
I have tried all platforms. For my personal life, for my life at home, for my digital life, I prefer Apple's ecosystem, NOT because someone told me I did, but after using all the other platforms, I made the decision for myself that it was a better experience for me.
There is no use for Windows in my life at this time, except to play games.
hipmanJan 14, 2011
Yes that's your preference and as I said that's great.....you just said like Windows was somehow inherently inferior or something.
eadnamsJan 14, 2011
I'm pretty sure, in his experience, windows IS inferior.
jcannonbJan 14, 2011
It is my belief that Windows as an OS is bloated and antiquated, and is on it's decline. Not because Microsoft sucks per se, but because Microsoft does not change fast enough with the times.
Gadgets and devices that have specialized functions and fit different areas of life are evolving and being created at a high rate of speed now, and the desktop computer as we know it is become less and less relevant in life.
enantiodromiaJan 14, 2011
How about the sample size of "nearly all Google, Facebook, and Twitter employees"?
How about the sample size if "Apple computers play a very large role in government research facilities"?
How about the same size of "Apple computers play a very large role in University and Research facilities"?
Go QQ somewhere else, your argument is about twenty years late.
enantiodromiaJan 14, 2011
There are two reasons left to 'need' a Windows machine:
1: Gaming
2: Old Windows XP dedicated business apps 99% of us will never use
waleedoJan 14, 2011
daaaaaamn
victormansonJan 14, 2011
I hope they start making viruses for Macs now...
neotechniJan 14, 2011
they do
have for years
victormansonJan 14, 2011
I understand that there are viruses for Macs, but they are obviously not a prevalent in the Mac world. I want System Tool 2011 for Mac.
charlotte_webJan 14, 2011
For a virus to be successful, it has to be able to spread fast, before users can react to it and shut it down. If you attach a Windows virus to an email and spam it out, 9 out of 10 recipients will be running Windows. A Mac virus email will only find 1 Mac user for every 20 that receive the email.
enantiodromiaJan 14, 2011
your comment is ignorant for a few reasons:
1: There are plenty of huge businesses which use almost exclusively Apple computers in their offices, such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter. According to your theory, those companies should be experiencing all kinds of Mac viruses. Have you ever seen one story about this happening?
2: Apple's OS is a flavor of Unix. There are not Unix viruses, no matter how badly the Windows loyalists would like to believe. There will not be a Unix virus, because Unix is not Windows.
3: Even if you were right, and you are no where close to being right, but even if you were, do you think a virus writer would not be smart enough to tell its virus to "only send to other Apple users"? It would be painfully easy to do this, exploiting Mail.app, Entourage, MobileMe, and any other Apple'ish social software.
dayal911Jan 17, 2011
If there are no Mac viruses, why do they make an anti-virus?
Here's an accurate analogy using tanks and cars. Using Windows is like driving an armored tank down Baghdad, where as using a Mac is like driving your convertible down Main St. USA.
tao52nycJan 14, 2011
But only idiots get them because they still have to put in an admin password. Probably a dozen Macs got infected last year. Mac malware is a joke, and "security by obscurity" is complete bulls**t. Has been for years.
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
Successful viruses.
enantiodromiaJan 14, 2011
such as?
thefirewireJan 14, 2011
There have been many contests with large sums of money involved to the person who could create a standalone virus that could spread in the wild. Proof of concepts and contained viruses that could not self replicate were created but none of them could compromise entire networks unless the admin was stupid and allowed it to happen.
Trust me people have been trying to create Viruses for OSX for years and have been unsuccessful and not just for the potential financial gain but also because of the extreme bragging rights someone could gain from such a feat.
The Operating systems before OSX were chocked full of viruses.
enantiodromiaJan 14, 2011
yeah, all the sudden there will be Unix viruses, for the first time since the early 70s.
i'm sure that will happen any day now, so hold your breath!
afizzledbearJan 14, 2011
Well clearly since they do not have more than ninety percent they are doomed.
Also this takes mobile OS in as well so obviously Windows will be smaller if you consider that. I mean more mobile phones are being bought and none of these use windows so it would be impossible for them to gain market share. As for Windows phone 7, well thats not even a year old.
charlotte_webJan 14, 2011
Actually, yeah, the countdown to the complete irrelevance of Windows started the day the Netscape browser first shipped. More and more apps are moving to the web, making the underlying OS more and more irrelevant. It's still gonna take a long time, but it will happen.
neotechniJan 14, 2011
smartphones are a different market
you still need a computer at home to even use an iphone for example
Closed AccountJan 14, 2011
Not true.
thefirewireJan 14, 2011
FrankenMac is right to an extent, you don't necessarily need a computer to operate an iPhone. It might have been true at the infancy of the iPhone, where you needed itunes to connect to your AT&T service and where the app store and itunes was not yet created/available to the early adopters but various paradigm shifts in its core software has allowed for a fully standalone mini computer.
The only time I could see mandatory use of iTunes via a computer was when you needed to Restore your iPhone to factory settings or upgrading the firmware.
Aside from that you could go for years never having to sync to any computer.
charlotte_webJan 14, 2011
The iPhone comes with an AC adapter in the box, and you don't have to sync it to a PC if you don't want.
enantiodromiaJan 14, 2011
no you don't.
only reason you need to connect an iPhone to a PC or Mac is to sync your MP3s, same as any other MP3 player in the world.
illinestJan 14, 2011
competition is good for everyone.
now if only apple would stop releasing overpriced piece of s**t computers maybe they could actually get 10% of the marketComment is buried, click here to see the rest.
enantiodromiaJan 14, 2011
Apple has the majority market share at Google, Facebook, Twitter, and many other engineering'centric tech companies. In fact, Google stopped issuing Windows machines altogether last year to their employees.
Are you saying that you can identify a good computer and the engineers at some of the largest tech companies cannot?
charlie876Jan 14, 2011
as a new stock watch this is interesting news should one buy or sell in a situation like this?
mobcommandJan 14, 2011
Perish the thought, below 90%??? bfd
superkendallJan 14, 2011
It happened long ago if you take company PC's and cash register PC's out of the equation.
DDeBoardJan 14, 2011
nice
datdude1378Jan 14, 2011
how much more can they drop. their intrinsic value is so deflated that they may need to open up air pump stations all around the globe just to keep air in the tire over at Microsoft. Bing i have got an idea!!!!!!!! Why dont they make........ Send me a message if you would like more info....
denisdepalatisJan 14, 2011
As a web developer, I like this part very much! - "Internet Explorer will ultimately become a minor player in the browser market, with WebKit-based rendering engines powering the majority of mobile devices, and Mozilla-based browsers being deployed on Linux-based (and Meego-based) larger form factor products."
kaingeoJan 14, 2011
www.ubuntu.com
kaingeoJan 14, 2011
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm
with android help!
wyekJan 14, 2011
This news is so useless... cause yes, it is the same news since 15 years but hey, why are you still talking about Apple? Apple is DONE, this time again and you know why, cause Apple is it's own enemy! It has always been... They do the same frikin "bad" choices like back in tha dayz when they've lost all the market for having a too restricted view of what a user is... They do the same again this time, they will loose their domination and focus cause they want to be ooohhh so different! But they forget that cooperation(AND AN OPEN MIND!) makes things evolve quicker so... In the past they loose the computer market to microsoft (and yes, it was avoidable in a lotttts of way, this time they will loose the tablet and phone market to Google) As for Apple popularity in the desktop... Well, this is another derivated talk... the only REAL reason why Apple as got more focus in the last 2.5 years (on the desktop) is because of the main fact that Windows Vista was a crappy os (and even that doesn't make them take that much of the market...). It's the same things as saying back in tha dayz that Mac Os was oooo so popular after the release of Windows Me... not that relevant... Now with Windows 7 and probably really soon Windows 8, I don't think that Apple has a lot to show at all to impress us... Apple is not failing, in fact yes, they fail all the time, but never completely. But I just don't think that the current situation differs than all the others, the only difference is that Google is in the game now... and you can be sure that apple will retakes his position of last of the market soon... (they already are in every domain except the tablet one... yes android already overpass ios and it's just the beginning... :P oh... sorry, maybe they will keep the mp3 player market, I don't know why but it seems that the competition still sleeping on it, for my part, i've got a sony 8Go flash mp3 player for 60$ with all the main options and a screen :P !! 150$ for a 8Go iPod nano is a little bit hard to justify to me... but hey people are people :D :D
sattireattireJan 14, 2011
This just shows that Apple Hippie Fanboys reproduce more morons to pay more for something inferior.
Seriously, Apple = butterknife, excellent for your butter spreading needs. bar none. the best at it's use. MS = Swiss Army Knife. Simply...can take on anything. Does it have problems? yes. does it have solutions? yes. Does it accomodate everyone who is willing to educate themselves with the infinite use? yes.
Swiss Army Knife > butterknife
enantiodromiaJan 14, 2011
"Unix > Windows"
I fixed it for you. Have fun thinking the only non-Unix based OS is somehow a swiss army knife while the Unix based OS is just a butter knife.
Here's a suggestion: learn how to use something else besides Windows some day, if you are able.
enantiodromiaJan 14, 2011
You shouldn't be digging me down sattireattire, you should be reading Unix man pages like a grown up.
forextraderguyJan 14, 2011
Wow -- I'd sure love a 90% share 25 years after entering a market!
feverhostJan 14, 2011
It's some-what because of the iPhone and a lot to do with ANDROID.
gdj11Jan 14, 2011
I've been a Windows user for 17 years and have defended it for most of those years. In recent years that's been very difficult to do with the huge amounts of spyware/adware/malware that is so easy for everyday computer users to accidentally or unknowingly install. It's almost disgusting looking at someone's computer and seeing it completely overwhelmed by toolbars, popups, widgets, add-ons, processes, programs, and any number of other completely unnecessary things. Yes, it's user error... most of the time. Unless you allow Windows to automatically download and install updates, which is a pain because it's always asking to be restarted, downloading huge files, or taking 15 minutes to start up or shut down because it's installing the updates, your computer can become compromised simply by visiting certain websites. I recently recommended to my dad that he get a Mac, which is the first time I've ever done that.
enantiodromiaJan 15, 2011
It's sort of interesting, that Windows and Apple have switched places in some ways.
It used to be Mac OS was the red headed step child, running on atypical CPUs, with an OS unlike anything else.
Now Windows is the odd man out, with it's red headed step child OS unlike literally every other modern OS, trying to catch up with the Apple Stores, mobile and desktop app stores, and OS X has joined the Unix family, running on Intel CPUs, setting the standard for consumer satisfaction and new services.
In the year 2011, if you cannot use Windows and OS X equally well, you should ask yourself how knowledgable that really makes you.
specifkJan 14, 2011
The news was probably conceived on a Windows...
amazetbmJan 15, 2011
Yeah...but it's still a great PC gaming platform.
bozziolJan 16, 2011
I'm almost growing tired of repeating the same thing time after time, but please all apple fanpeople: macos and apple computers are ocupying a niche - expensive but beautifully designed electronics for snobs, and they are happy there. apple sales will not grow significantly because those products are simply too expensive, above the affordability threshold of an average person. Yes, they have stretched existing small market of smartphones and yes, they have done it well (making room for android and others on the way), but this will not happen on computer market.
Claims about superiority of macos over win7 are simply ridiculous. I'm using both in professional environment, and whereas win7 64bit is proving to be extremely robust, stable, safe and ergonomical, I am experiencing huge problems with latest iteration of macos+workstation hardware, which for some reason is very unstable. In our 100+ workstations office more than half of our creme de la creme mac pros serve grey screen of death many times a day for no apparent reason.
And this comes on top of simple, everyday problems with lack of industry standard software tools we would normally use in windows environent (3D modeling, CAD etc), problems with an outdated interface and many other. Of course, there are workarounds for most of those problems (apart from grey screen of death) but AFAIR it should JUST work, straight out of the box?!