OpenCL and Grand Central are single handedly going make Snow Leopard the best OS ever. With M$ scratching their heads, still trying to figure out how to patch the Vista and sell it as Windows-7 they are going to loose the race. Linux and OSX will emerge as two heavyweight OSs in next few years. M$ is history.
I know there will be many of the opinion that most commercial / development houses still use Windows. But from the present trend and companies trying not to rely on flawed windows have already started to migrate to Linux and OSX. I work for a leading edge technology company and half of my companies computers are already using linux and osx for core development stuff.
For Apple to win, M$ does not have to loose..... Steve Jobs ====> coz M$ will eventually fall out anyways
I agree! I think we have past the tipping point and Microsoft is screwed in more ways than one.
Windows is their main source of revenue and is way behind and has a horribly tarnished reputation. So much so that now even possibly HP and Google are secretly making their own OSs. This is after people already are staying away from Vista like a plague and will be maybe even more afraid of Windows 7 because of that.
Windows Mobile sucks, and is already being dominated by OS X iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, etc. And they won't even have Windows Mobile 7 out till the end of next year...wow!
Any OS that Microsoft makes is so crappy and so behind with no successor due to be out for so long that PC vendors like HP and cell phone vendors like HTC are developing their own software wrapped around the OS to try and make it even slightly appealing.
Windows Live and the whole Yahoo thing seems very desperate and is being dominated by Google.
Zune is not even branded as Microsoft because their name would tarnish the products attempts to be cool and is still nothing with no revenue.
X-Box is also not branded as Microsoft because it would tarnish it as uncool and is also still no source or revenue.
Ballmer says he wants to be the software on the phones instead of the hardware while Apple now has more market share in mobile OSs than Windows Mobile PLUS the hardware on top of that all while Microsoft copies Apple's hardware + software model with the Zune and X-Box but can't even turn a profit.
Seriously, Microsoft spends billions more to make products and is so behind and inefficient, why in the HELL has Steve Ballmer not been fired as C.E.O.??? He is nothing more than a moron that rode the coat tails of Bill Gates. Imagine what a company with those resources could do if they actually had a good visionary leader.
Apple is going to keep gaining huge market share in consumer and business, in computers and the mobile arena and their ecosystem will become even stronger than it already is.
Snow Leopard is going to be awesome and will trickle into OS X iPhone and every other product that now has OS X imbeded. I am very excited
