Microsoft (MSFT) kept the Linux desktop people at bay for years. The open source operating systems wanted a piece of Redmond’s huge Windows PC franchise.
The problem with Linux software is that moving it in any direction is like, to use a hackneyed saying "herding cats." Linux programmers work, for the most part, for free. It shows.
Apple (AAPL), on the other hand, knows how to build software and it has been able to take a share of the Windows franchise because of the popularity of the Mac. After years of having a tiny share of the computer market it now has, by some measures, up to 5%.
New data shows that the Mac OS hit 7.6% market share in January, eating into the Windows franchise. According to Fortune "the really good news for Apple, according to Net Applications, came in the last two days of the month, when Mac OS X hit 8.01%.."
Vista is quaking in its boots.
Douglas A. McIntyre
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