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Windows 7 surpasses Mac OS X in market share
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article published on 28 November, 2009
Windows 7 has surpassed the Mac OS X in market share, moving to almost 6 percent in its first month of release. All Mac OS X versions combined have an estimated 5.27 percent market share, according to Net Applications.
"It's safe to say that Windows 7's daily share did peak above Mac's weekly share," said Vince Vizzaccaro, executive vice president at Net Applications, to PCWorld.
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30. November 2009 @ 20:03 |
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I have a slightly different take on this issue...
Myself, I find it absolutely hilarious that Apple thinks of themself as a competitor to Windows when articles like this clearly demonstrates that Apple is simply a bit player.
Win7 surpassed each and every Apple install in one good week!
It doesn't even matter which one is better and which one is worse. The fact is that Windows is EVERYWHERE, and Apple is nowhere.
Apple is like one single PC manufacturer. A small fish in a VERY big pond.
Apple's are "better" because they control each and every aspect of that box. They control the software. They control the hardware. They control the UI. They control everything. If you like that then get an Apple and you'll be very happy.
But, if you are like MOST people who like to have choices and make changes and install anything and everything then get a PC, because that Apple is just not going to do that for ya.
When the installed userbase of Apple reaches 30% then give me a call. But until then, it doesn't matter if that Apple reaches out and rubs my crotch, it will just be a bit player.
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1. December 2009 @ 00:18 |
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Apple found a niche in the market.
Apple is not a competition to the PC platform they are a competitor to Proprietary designs that for so many years held a monetary foothold
not so long ago IBM,Be inc, NeXT, Sun Micro-systems, and Apple were in this type of market competing with each other. you see people that forgot where apple was born not as a private investment in Ms. Jobs garage but rather it really came about when proprietary equipment was widely available.
if thats to hard to understand here is figure. Apple thrived when there was 18 different game consoles on the market, each game console needed its own copy of madden 2010, but every once in awhile there was an amazing game you couldn't play with out that console.
and thus the PC was born it could play everything.
PS* if i had to go back and chose i would pick the BeBOX over anything, it was way past its time on every level.
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3. December 2009 @ 01:01 |
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The cold hard fact is that Windows 7 is growing because Vista was buggy and was eating up memory soo people moved to 7 cause it was less trouble and no major changes from the vista engine.
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CarpeSol
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4. December 2009 @ 21:00 |
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*Grabs popcorn*
*adds butter*
*leans back in his chair*
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4. December 2009 @ 22:11 |
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Originally posted by CarpeSol:
*Grabs popcorn*
*adds butter*
*leans back in his chair*
... and falls dead asleep...
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5. December 2009 @ 18:55 |
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Computing on a MAC or a PC, they all use the same components, MB, CPU, Video, Sound. REAL computing will be realized when Computers are defined by the Operating system that is loaded, with no restrictive switches on the chipsets on the MB....then watch computing take off.
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TrinUK
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7. December 2009 @ 05:41 |
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I've used Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac OSX. Of all the Operating systems available it must be said that Microsoft deserves a lot of credit for revolutionising the PC world - something many forget. If it wasn't for MS-DOS followed by windows then where would we be today? Unix/Linux back in the day was horrid to use if you had little knowledge of PC's and command line.
Another important subject arises such as gaming and multimedia, many forget the days of Wolfenstein and Doom. Linux falls down greatly because there are too many versions/flavors which put off new users. Not to mention DirectX vs OpenGL. No matter what OS you prefer, I think we all agree that Microsoft's DirectX has worked wonders in the gaming industry. If Linux could match that and encourage more developers to make games for the OS then I think things would drastically change - that would be great!
Linux is fantastic but needs that something special/extra to grab the attention of novice users in the PC world.
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7. December 2009 @ 07:11 |
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Originally posted by TrinUK:
I've used Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac OSX. Of all the Operating systems available it must be said that Microsoft deserves a lot of credit for revolutionising the PC world - something many forget. If it wasn't for MS-DOS followed by windows then where would we be today? Unix/Linux back in the day was horrid to use if you had little knowledge of PC's and command line.
Another important subject arises such as gaming and multimedia, many forget the days of Wolfenstein and Doom. Linux falls down greatly because there are too many versions/flavors which put off new users. Not to mention DirectX vs OpenGL. No matter what OS you prefer, I think we all agree that Microsoft's DirectX has worked wonders in the gaming industry. If Linux could match that and encourage more developers to make games for the OS then I think things would drastically change - that would be great!
Linux is fantastic but needs that something special/extra to grab the attention of novice users in the PC world.
Ya but GL was more optimized and ran better on most hardware...I do not if now its the case...but back then it kicked DXs ass till like DX7....
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TrinUK
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7. December 2009 @ 07:25 |
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GL 3.0 was meant to be updated with a host of new features to rival newer versions of DirectX but a lot of the changes/new promises did not materialise.
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7. December 2009 @ 07:28 |
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Originally posted by TrinUK:
GL 3.0 was meant to be updated with a host of new features to rival newer versions of DirectX but a lot of the changes/new promises did not materialise.
That and it got easier and easier for devs to do DX stuff. 0-o
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dan1972
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9. December 2009 @ 12:39 |
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the game is to be sold not to be TOLD
macfags=TOLD
windows=SOLD
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