Mass Microsoft Defections to Apple Possible

An anonymous reader writes to mention a MacWorld article covering research by the Forrester group. Their report shows that mass dissatisfaction with Microsoft and its products could lead to defections from the company. From the article: "Over all, only Apple and Tivo saw their brand trust rise in the last two years, according to the report. The final tally saw Bose, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Panasonic and Sony earn the highest marks, while Microsoft, Gateway and LG ranked lowest. The low scores for Microsoft could mean good news for Apple as consumers showed their distrust of the Redmond-based software-giant."

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Umm... Yeah

[C_Kode]

Mass Microsoft Defections to Apple Possible

I love how a zealot of one face uses news of another that has nothing to do with it's own make it seem as if the world they live in just got brighter. MS gets defections everyday and has for years. Apple's overall usage is still around 3% right?

I find that *most* (not all) Mac users to be one of three types. In the Hollywood business, a woman, or of metrosexual *type*. All three types usually are controlled by emotions rather than logic.

I'm sure I will get negative karma for saying that, but it's normally what I see.

This is silly

[XMilkProject]

This is just silly, even Apple knows that their O/S just isn't useful to most people, they just released a tool to let you put Windows on their boxes for christ sake.

Not saying there is anything wrong with MacOS, I use it. But it isn't useful to many people to be in the 1% minority. The entire purpose of computing is the ease of data exchange, not trying to be different.

I wouldn't be surprised is Apple was already planning on phasing out their software and just providing hardware/ipod.

Heres a nice qoute from Steve Jobs:

"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
-- Fortune, Feb. 19, 1996

Re:Trying a Mac

[IdleTime]

"Maximizing to fill all screen real estate would be a completely idiotic feature in such an environment"

Who are you (or Apple) to tell me how I should work? Get the fuck out of my way and let me do my job the way I want and need to!. In case you haven't noticed, some of us have jobs that involve other programs than an editor and a browser.