“As many of you are aware, I think Windows Vista is a blunder. And with its annoying UAC system and horrifically slow operation, it won’t take long before the majority of home users agree with me. If the recent figures showing Mac OS X is already gaining market share is any indication of the future, look for Leopard to outsell Vista by a staggering margin,” Don Reisinger blogs for CNET.
“Simply put, Mac OS X Leopard is one of the most significant operating system achievements we have witnessed in years. Not only does it add functionality that Microsoft could only have dreamed of, it does so in a snappy environment that doesn’t annoy you with pop-ups asking for permission or all of those security threats we have come to know (and hate) in Windows,” Reisinger blogs.
“Unfortunately for Microsoft, the cards have been dealt and the future of the operating system market is beyond its control. Vista–its workhorse for the next three to five years–is the only thing standing between Microsoft’s command of the operating system market and Apple. But unfortunately for Microsoft, Leopard is a superior product on a ‘cool’ computer,” Reisinger blogs.
“With the release of the iPhone and its subsequent success, Apple has enjoyed record-setting profits, a significant increase in Mac market share, and continued success in the PMP market. Simply put, Apple is easily the most favored company in the industry. And while Leopard is more of an evolutionary jump than a revolutionary jump, it’s enough of a change to justify its purchase,” Reisinger blogs.
“Leopard was released at the right time. With Apple dominating headlines and becoming a company in vogue, it wouldn’t surprise me to see Mac sales jump far beyond expectations in the coming months. And once that happens, Leopard will start its rise and take a significant share away from Microsoft,” Reisinger blogs. “Believe what you will, but with sluggish sales and an outright condemnation on the part of retailers worldwide, Microsoft is in trouble.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: If Microsoft isn’t embarrassed by now, they’ll never be. Regardless of their shamelessness, all derivative schlockmeisters are destined to eventually meet that bitch named Karma.
Mac user since 1992 and totally committed. Ready and waiting to upgrade from my venerable and brilliant Cube to drop dead gorgeous IMac and Leopard (which I agree appears to knock spots off Vista). Now leopard has arrived I am about to place the order…….only one snag, reading the forums, IMac and Leopard don’t appear to mix! How very microsoft. Could it be that my favourite company has lost the plot. Any thoughts MDN
Can Zune Tang stay? He’s funny – you can’t buy humour like that!
Microsoft did report that 88 million copies of vista have been sold. But my question is is what accounts for the 88 million copies. Is it simply copies that they have sold to manufactures of computers, retail stores, etc? Or is it copies of vista that consumers have actually purchased either by itself or pre-installed on a new computer. My personal opinion is that microsoft needed to come out with some good news about vista due to the fact that Apple has been dominating headlines and if microsoft had any coverage, it usually was about problems that have surfaced concerning vista. So they found whatever information sounded best and went with it. I read the article and other subsequent articles and found nothing explaining where these sales figures are from. And all in all, at this point, apple does not have to outsell microsoft to be extremely successful with whatever product (or market) they are competing with. Apple’s momentum is getting bigger and bigger with every new product release that they have. Apple’s business model is obviously working. Let them do what they have been doing the whole time and stock price and market share will continue to rise.
@ B Real
Like Reagan and the Soviets…
Tear down that wall. All are in search of a new vista, not Vista®
Gorby et. all did not really see it coming until it was–game over, man.
Hey Zung Tungue … don’ t you have a job or a life or something?
You are seriously wasting your time ….
Target has this TV ad with a flying chair nailing some gal on a downtown street… must be Redmond…lol
Right. Only the veterans appreciate Zune Tang’s fine humor.
Newbies: Get used to it. Don’t fight it: Embrace it (the sense of humor I mean)
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Expect the army of IT support drones to start their underground FUD campaign against Apple.
Expect the lies, untruths and outright hostility in Windows IT support departments up and down the land, to be stepped up a few notches.
As the orders go out from Redmond, expect the following:
1) security firms announcing how amazing Vista’s security is
2) security firms announcing how limited Leopard’s security is and how the virus/malware/spyware/trojan for the Mac, that they’ve been predicting now for the past 6 years is just around the corner
3) so-called ‘security experts’ finding a new security hole in the Mac’s network/wireless/graphics card/usb card etc that Apple patched 3 years ago but the security expert highlights it as if it were brand new
4) so-called ‘security experts’ suddenly finding a new proof of concept worm that they honestly didn’t create themself which proves that the Mac’s security record is terrible, and everyone must look at me!, look at me! aren’t I clever. (The worm is then discovered to only work if you double click on the worm in the finder and then it simply duplicates itself. Once. It will be called the ‘stubalitcigarette’ virus.)
It’s going to be a very interesting few years…
stop worrying about 88 million copies of VISTA sold. Just worry about Mac HARDWARE marketshare. Remember thereʻs a bunch of Apple buyers running Boot Camp or some virtual layer to run windows.
buy your AAPL stock now. and stop looking at Vista numbers. if u bought MSFT stock options a day before itʻs earnings last week, youʻd be up 500%. alot of $ to buy a new Mac
Has anyone actually seen Leopard Server? I’ve not seen it at the Apple Store or CompUSA. I wonder if it actually exists…
Hey Zune Tang!
I got a great microsoft fan site! It’s called Pen island.com
Weird, just weird,
I went to the article and read the replys. All MS trolls. Why? Because they all follow the same format, all of them. Weird
They go like this:
I own a MAC,
I love Apple,
I hate Apple products,
I am going (went) back to Vista cause its so great.
Apple things it has to rule the world
Microsoft is the best because:
Its bigger,
It sells more.
It makes lots of money,
No one will ever topple Microsoft.
bla,bla, bla.
I mean really, the posts are just like that. I love Apple so I must be believed. Then, I have every apple product after OS 8.
Apple will never win. their terrible, they suck. bla, bla, bla.
Troll speak.
I am so glad I do not live there.
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ps, Zune Tang. Its getting old. Go home.
@drbyers
“Peecee users will always see microsoft products as a better OS even if steve balmer personally laid a turd in a box and sold it as a new windows OS update.”
They already did. It’s called a Zune and they are on version 2 already”
People stop worrying about my brother Zune Tang. He knows not of what he speaks.
As for the 88million copies of Vista, it was actually 83million, and those are to OEMs and retail sales. Also, be aware that OEMs are stocking up for the holiday season, and in fact, the previous quarter’s total was 60million and before that 40million, so the marginal increase was only 15% better than the previous quarter. The analysts haven’t looked closely at MS’ numbers yet to see the TRUTH. Right now, they’re just parroting the MS’ company line. Most of their increase in profits did not come from Vista or Halo/Xbox360, but from enterprise and server sales, as usual. If I could, I’d short MS.
Interestingly, the Beeb conducted a poll of users and their willingness to ‘upgrade’ to Leopard.
57% ststed they used windows and clearly weren’t buying lepoard.
But of the Mac users, 22% said yes and 6% said no. What wouldn’t M$ give for their latest offering to have over 80% of their users express an intent to upgrade !!
Ah, more on Zune Thang. Let’s run the intelligent translator to see peer into the sub concious Zune Thang..
“Microsoft in bare ass? It’s Apple who should be in bare ass. Leopard is not even good enough to be a poor man’s Vibrating Intruder Sticking To Anal. Maybe Apple should have named it after a pussy. After all that is what real men want, a nice perfect pussy.
But Zune Thang, well he could not handle a real nice tight pussy. That’s why he is cockin’ Virtually Inside Steve Turdman’s Ass (Vista (a.k.a. MAC OS 10.8)) on a Delldo right now.”
Oh I better turn it off, would not want to drain the batteries.
Zune’s asshole. Vista’s playground.™
It is fucking painful to see the responses from all these chodes who don’t know satire for shit and then say the kind of dumbshit replies that only betrays too well how basic and lame their fucking daily thoughts must be. Like slow ten year olds.
Buy a Windows Vista PC today!
You won’t have to worry about anyone stealing it.
Microsoft: Our passion is in your penetration.™
Have you considered they may actually be kids?
Personally I dont give a damn how many millions of copies of Vista is sold.
I just pity the idiots who are buying and using that POS.
Me, Ive used a mac for 16 years and dont give a shit about Microsoft.
I run my own business and we ONLY use macs, we have no problems what-so-ever interacting with any version of windows, we have no viri, no malware and no spyware.
My company uses X-serve, intel macs and OS X.
And boy is everyone happy!
In this modern world windows is totally irrelevant, regardless how many copies Micrsoft has ‘allegidly’ sold.
@ Roadwarrior
ROFL – those comments were priceless!!
😀
i know a bitch named Karma, he plays Myth ||
Zune Tang is a Mac guy. Leave him alone. It is all sarcasm….jessh. It’s time to catch on everyone.
…for years Jimmy Juggernaut has been the big man in the overcoat misleading the masses …sodomizing government officials and hand-jobbing the corporate candy cane ..but no one had ever thought of Jimmy as micro or soft ..especially many of the government officials who knew him more intimately. All the while, OSX has been blowing steady against Jimmys overcoat …the threads have frayed on a couple of buttons. Soon, his overcoat will blow backwards and where there should be a man there will instead be 7 or 8 special ed kids …yeah, the Vista totem pole. The demigods of Redmond will find inner strength in the authenticity of their own embarrassment. The special ed kids will be scattered in the wind and not be recovered.
Although I wish it were possible, I don’t see how Leopard will make the dent this blogger is claiming. After all, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Sony, et. al. only put Vista on their computers and the majority of customers just accept the status-quo.