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"George Graves" wrote in message
news:0001HW.C427FABB001DAD40F01846D8@news.comcast.net...
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:31:57 -0700, Hasta La Vista wrote
> (in article ):
>
>>
>> "George Graves" wrote in message
>> news:0001HW.C4278DD3000426C0F01846D8@news.comcast.net...
>>> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:59:22 -0700, Hasta La Vista wrote
>>> (in article ):
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Dave Fritzinger" wrote in message
>>>> news:bbd2261a-028e-4211-b308-a4411f984581@i36g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>>>>> Interesting article in Business Week.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2008/tc20080410_206881.h
>>>>> tm
>>>>>
>>>>> "The 20-year death grip that Microsoft has held on the core of
>>>>> computing is finally weakening--pried loose with just two fingers.
>>>>> With
>>>>> one finger you press "Control" and with the other you press "right
>>>>> arrow." Instantly you switch from a Macintosh operating system (OS) to
>>>>> a Microsoft Windows OS. Then, with another two-finger press, you
>>>>> switch back again. So as you edit family pictures, you might use Mac's
>>>>> iPhoto. And when you want to access your corporate e-mail, you can
>>>>> switch back instantly to Microsoft Exchange."
>>>>
>>>> From what I read above, Windows has gone from running only on PCs, to
>>>> running on both PCs and Macs. The article is even boasting about how
>>>> easy
>>>> it is to run Windows on the Mac.
>>>
>>> Yet, in my experience, few Mac users do run Windows on their Intel Macs.
>>> Those who do seem to use it to placate their bosses: "I would like a Mac
>>> rather than a PC. It can run Windows right along side OSX, so I'm still
>>> running the same versions of software as the rest of the office." Once
>>> the
>>> get the Mac in the corporate door, they rarely, if ever, boot into
>>> Windows.
>>
>> In my experience corporations standardize on one supplier, such as Dell
>> or
>> IBM. Employees aren't free to pick any brand they'd like.
>
> While that's mostly true, it isn't universally true - especially if one is
> willing to supply one's own machine (to avoid the horror that IS Windows).

You seem almost believable until something like "avoid the horror that IS
Windows" slips out of you. Then one laughs at you and shakes one's head and
mutters to oneself "Oh, he's one of THOSE..."

>>>> I'm baffled on how Microsoft extending its sales and user bases to Mac
>>>> owners represents a "weakening" of their position.
>>>
>>> Because the number of Mac owners taking advantage of that option are
>>> miniscule.
>>
>> If that's true, you just trashed the article.
>>
>>>> If this article had been about how PC owners are buying OSX to run
>>>> along
>>>> with Windows, I would have agreed with the premise that MS is
>>>> weakening.
>>>
>>> Windows sales into Macs is so miniscule that it has no bearing on the
>>> overall
>>> market health of the MS operating systems. If MS is weakening, it has
>>> essentially nothing to do with the Mac.
>>
>> IOW, you completely disagree with the article. That's understandable.
>
> Yes, I do.

Too bad your disagreement has no basis other than what you'd like to
believe.