Irony is after 10-20 years later, it is still the same… So at the end of it all, they are both in the market and still a voice in the OS world… Instead of bashing it, I think people need to realize there are strength and weakness to everything.

One of the commentor is right.. If you want the best OS, go get a Solaris/UNIX. Of course, you can't afford to pay for it but it is the best out there.

Those who bash Windows (mostly MAC users): Windows OS dominate the market because they are one of the best marketed and connected OS to vendors (I did not say to customer because that is one of the worse if you buy retail). You have to tip your hat to them. They got various people to go to for support and assistance. So one of you stated how it ranks last and still dominates goes to the power of marketing and relationships. As I have stated before, having the best technology does not always equate success (Look right now with Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD, Beta-Max vs. VHS, Token Ring vs. Ethernet, Novell vs. Windows Networking). Those the software code is not open, Microsoft hardware to the application is open. Meaning you could get it from Dell, HP, etc. and get a cost effective price. That "openness" always brings the potential for hackers in achieving security breaches. So you can't blame that on Microsoft completely (wow, I am talking "openness" about Microsoft.. LOL). Lastly, the Windows OS is going bashed because it is the leading OS maker.. It is the 500lb gorilla that is known to everyone. If you want to create chaos, you go after the big gorillas.. (Hackers are going after Cisco as of late too for network equipments).If Apple gets big, it will happen to Apple as well…

Those who bash Mac OS (mostly PC users): The hardware is the best marketed equipment in that it is considered the "leading edge". The reality it is not even close to be the leading edge but personified to be "COOL"… Just like Microsoft, Apple utilize marketing to establish popularity and trendiness. Heck, the parts of MAC are the same as some of the vendors of Dell and HP. What differs that make Apple good and bad is that the closed down the relationship of those vendors. Positive, it control what hardware parts are used with the OS (which could help ensure security options and hardware optimization). The downfall is you are going to pay more for the parts because it is not open for anyone to build a clone and install a OS X. The benefit of that relationship for Apple is control! To help protect the OS from hackers (which will eventually come to the Apple realm like it or not) and keeping the codes as secret as possible… Hence, Apple isn't that much different from Microsoft. What OS X has is the programmers to renovate the OS faster than Microsoft. That I can't deny! Hence, minor changes to the OS (and with restrictions on hardware, it does not need to update as frequent since it only needs to test parts approved with Mac OS X.)

At the end, both of them are going to be fine… What they are to me are really just flavors of preferences. Eventually, both are going to have the same problems and same issues. You might think I am crazy when I write this but being a MAC, PC, and Sun owner to do various applications… They have strength and weakness.

This article is about market share. I think it's a wonderful thing that all of these companies are working hard to provide better products and software for us. I hope they continue to do well battling it out because that will benefit us in the end with even better products and services. That's what matters and what we're all after anyways, right? Let's leave the battling between the companies and not the users!

I own an iPod, I will never spend the amount of money on an iPhone (I love my crackberry), and I plan on buying PCs until the next great technology comes out. But reading these message boards that resemble lunchroom arguments and threats of "you're not my best friend anymore" will ALWAYS be mildly entertaining.

So we Mac users are "iTards" but you can't even capitalize the first letter of your sentences, nor spell the word "aian't" which, by the way "aian't" a word.

Windows-created for use by people like "maddawg"

I believe that the only reason Windows retains so high a market share is that alomst all PCs come with Windows pre-installed and consumers simply go with what they know, without caring that there are much better alternatives.