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Will’s Vista’s Strenths Slow The Mac

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Vista is coming to town. Its strengths as a operating system seem to be considerable, even when when compared to the best version of Linux destop and Apple’s Tiger OS.

Research firm IDC expects 90 million units of Vista will be shipped in 2007. And, any number of these do not have the processing power to run Vista. So, there will be some level of surge in PC purchases at both enterprises and by consumers. The extent of that is really not possible to forecast.

Mac sales have been doing well. In its fiscal Q4, Apples sold 1.61 million Macs, up 30% from the same quarter a year ago. PC sales in the US will be about 66 million for the entire year.

Apple’s recent success with the Mac came pre-Vista and its Tiger OS X may have been attractive compared to older versions of Windows.

But, things may change for Apple, and soon. The Windows OS still has well over 90% of the computer market, Vista hards needs much marketing.

Will it drive PC sales and  reignite share increases for companies like Dell and Hewlett-Packard?

If so, that is not good news for Apple.

Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at [email protected]. He does not own securities in companies that he writes about.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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