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Apple’s (AAPL) Cruel War On Vista

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Vista is Microsoft’s (MSFT) flagship now. But, in a series of ads Apple (AAPL) and taken a juvenile and merciless approach to news that the new operating system from Redmond may have too many bugs causing users to turn away.Their alternative, of course, is to use the new Apple OS, Leopard. And, the plan may be working.

All of the information about Vista sales is anecdotal  Computer World says one study finds that 90% of IT managers are delaying installation of the software due to concerns about problems with the OS and half have no plans to upgrade at all. But, the report goes on to say that MSFT has already sold 88 million copies of the software. Another 42 million PC have Vista through volume contracts.

Other reports say that some customers are simply staying with XP, the old operating system. But, no hard numbers are available.

Apple splurging to promote its new Mac Leopard OS X. The company claims that it has more features than Vista, and, of course, it runs on the "super cool" Mac hardware.

Apple does not mention in the ads that OS X 10.4.11 has bugs which can make some systems inoperable, at least according to IT BusinessEdge. Wired ran a report recently titled "This Cat Has Flees! Leopard Early Adopters Encounter Bugs Aplenty."

Everyone gets to tweak the giant’s nose. But, he may tweak back.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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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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