There Seems to Be More Mac Users Lately

[symphonix]

Do you think Microsoft time in the sun is running out?

Clearly, it is. While Apple, Google and others are all innovating like crazy, Microsoft has continued to try and push its same old business model. They still pin their hopes on a new version of the OS (Vista) and Office suite (Office 2008) that have been supporting their business model for twenty years. With the EU and US Dept of Justice forcing them to adopt open standards, they can no longer protect this side of their business.

Vista uptake is the slowest of any new Windows version in Microsoft's history. Firefox is now being installed by more people each day than Internet Explorer, and will overtake it in a couple of years.

Even in relatively new business units, such as XBox, they're not actually trying anything new; just more high-tech versions of the old business model - the XBox 360 might be a new system, but it costs the same to produce and sells at the same price, with the same license fees on games and accessories as its predecessor.

When all else fails, they copy what everyone else is already doing and tend to fail miserably because they come in with too little, too late. Can you say Zune anyone?

So yes, I'd say Microsoft has been withering away for some time. They're being overtaken by open source and by companies with new ideas and ways of delivering IT products to market.

[powermac]

Lately and in a few instances people told me they are switching to Mac because Vista is not attracting them. One of those people is my cousin who was a die-hard PC girl. She did not care for Vista, and went to the Mac. Of course she said, "should have done this long-time ago." LOL!!!

[Digital FX]

I switched just about the same time as vista's lanch but i did switch because of it. I switched because i was sick and tired of using the window start button and task bar GUI.
The fact that I don't have upgarde to vista is just a bonus

[Amie]

Originally Posted by Satcomer

Amie you should look at MacOSXHints sometimes. There are some great terminal hints that really extended OS X so much it is even funny.

Well, yeah. But, like Fryke said, messing with Terminal can result in a catastrophe. (And I'm probably one of those people who would get that result. LOL)

Originally Posted by symphonix

Clearly, it is. While Apple, Google and others are all innovating like crazy, Microsoft has continued to try and push its same old business model. They still pin their hopes on a new version of the OS (Vista) and Office suite (Office 2008) that have been supporting their business model for twenty years. With the EU and US Dept of Justice forcing them to adopt open standards, they can no longer protect this side of their business.

Vista uptake is the slowest of any new Windows version in Microsoft's history. Firefox is now being installed by more people each day than Internet Explorer, and will overtake it in a couple of years.

Even in relatively new business units, such as XBox, they're not actually trying anything new; just more high-tech versions of the old business model - the XBox 360 might be a new system, but it costs the same to produce and sells at the same price, with the same license fees on games and accessories as its predecessor.

When all else fails, they copy what everyone else is already doing and tend to fail miserably because they come in with too little, too late. Can you say Zune anyone?

So yes, I'd say Microsoft has been withering away for some time. They're being overtaken by open source and by companies with new ideas and ways of delivering IT products to market.

Excellent post.

[Curiosity]

Originally Posted by Natobasso

Vista is really killing microsoft right now. It's a matter of security winning out over freedom.

Mac's marketshare, I hear, has risen from 4-5 to about 8%. Not sure if that counts the sheer ubiquity of the ipod...Macs are easy to use and they have consistent interfaces.

People began getting ticked off with Microsoft before Vista. When they introduced that Genuine Advantage, they began ticking off people, and Vista has simply ticked off more people. I do not want to use Vista. I got a Mac to begin getting used to doing things with it before my PC broke down, and I would have to go to Mac entirely.

[powermac]

I am not familiar with what Genuine Advantage is?

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by powermac

I am not familiar with what Genuine Advantage is?

He's talking about Windows Genuine Advantage, the DRM mechanism that checks to make sure you're legally running a legal copy of Windows.

[Qion]

Originally Posted by nixgeek

He's talking about Windows Genuine Advantage, the DRM mechanism that checks to make sure you're legally running a legal copy of Windows.

It's actually rather disadvantageous.