Letters to the Editor
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kinda funny
What's somewhat surprising is that these guys felt the need to even comment on Apple's numbers in relation. What's that Microsoft? Hearing footsteps? ;-)
One billion computers running Windows is pretty impressive, I'll admit. Depressing, too, but whatever. It's the de facto OS of business, so I would suspect that the installed user base far exceeds 1 seat to 1 user. In light of this fact, to be crowing about how Vista has sold 60 million copies (anyone care to guess how many of these licenses were purchased by software developers and other technology companies whose fortunes are tied to being able to support Vista?) -- well, that's hardly "bringing the heat."
Also, considering the insanely long development period for Vista, I don't know how impressive it is to brag that there were "only" 12 serious vulnerabilities reported in the first 180 days. Especially considering that they had to gut about 75% of the advanced features that were supposed to be included in it just to get it out the door years late.
And 21% fewer support calls for Vista than there were for XP? Talk about damning with faint praise! A considerably smaller and less successful launch of a stripped down, ages behind schedule, far more technologically mature OS has resulted in one fifth fewer support calls than for XP, an OS chock full o' flaws from day 1? Please stop, I must gather my wits about me.
MacOS is, in the grand scheme of things, an OS designed for personal home use and for creative professionals (it also works like a charm in a regular business environment too, but good luck telling that to Madge in the Purchasing dept.). I'd be very interested in seeing the numbers of how Macs now stack up against Windows boxes in just those market segments.