Then try not to skew the data... 95% of people who buy new computers every quarter are buying Windows PCs. Most of those people are counted at least once a year and no one is counting how many of the 95% actually remove Windows to replace it with something else.
By contrast, Mac users are often only counted once every three years.
Macs make up about 15% of the installed computers in the US, with Linux/BSD making up somewhere between 8% to 10%. That would leave Windows with about 75%.
Now to say that even those 75%
prefer Windows is a fallacy. Many of those people have never tried or seen anything else, and have no idea that alternatives are available.
And as long as I'm posting in yet another
Red Box thread... At the time of the rumors of
Red Box, it couldn't have been anything more than a
VirtualPC-like environment at the time as Blue Box was little more than
VirtualMac.
Blue Box runs within it's own display window (you can not see any of the Yellow Box environment while in Blue Box) and the whole environment is running off a disk image. So it is very much like VirtualPC is when running in full screen mode.
And Frankly, that was why the idea that Apple was working on this was so far fetched. Connectix was working with Apple during Rhapsody to try to port VirtualPC. But Apple had no plans for a
Red Box environment (they had their hands full with too many other issues at the time to take on something as pointless as this).
Besides, the term
Red Box was coined outside of Apple. I can't imagine any one at Apple pick red for an application environment. Purple or green would have been more likely choices.
Why people buy into this stuff...
