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Re: Apple Riding a 51% Jump in Mac Sales

Apr 25, 2008, 03:25

LittleMe

Microsoft has itself to blame, imo, for a significant part of the post-Vista Mac sales growth. The biggest hurdle MS has to greater profits, is themselves and their bureaucracy.

The recent Dvorak article missed one key failure of Vista. That was that a lot of software became incompatible with Vista and that was a major first for a MS OS. Win95 ran both Win16 and Win32 for the transition. The WinXP transition to the NT kernel had the WinNT and Win2K to ease the transition for the drivers. Not so with Vista.

Someone high up at MS didn't know or ignored this vital method to transition software to new standards that MS has used in the past successfully.

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Comment [quote="LittleMe"Apr 25, 2008, 03:25]Microsoft has itself to blame, imo, for a significant part of the post-Vista Mac sales growth. The biggest hurdle MS has to greater profits, is themselves and their bureaucracy. The recent Dvorak article missed one key failure of Vista. That was that a lot of software became incompatible with Vista and that was a major first for a MS OS. Win95 ran both Win16 and Win32 for the transition. The WinXP transition to the NT kernel had the WinNT and Win2K to ease the transition for the drivers. Not so with Vista. Someone high up at MS didn't know or ignored this vital method to transition software to new standards that MS has used in the past successfully. [/quote]

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