Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 31st Jul 2009 12:13 UTC
With Apple doing really, really well, and with Microsoft having its first sets of negative figures since the company's founding, Microsoft CEO points his arrows towards Cupertino. In a talk to members of the press and analyst community, Ballmer talked about Microsoft vs. Apple.
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The strategy behind the switch ads of Apple was to make people switch from Windows but from Windows based Computers to Mac Platform. Apple is a hardware company, they are not selling Operating System that can run on any other hardware other than an Apple branded computer, also Apple provides drive partitioning tool (Bootcamp), drivers; 32 as well as 64 bit so that the users of Intel based Apple computers can use Windows. Apple is in no competition with Microsoft here, Apple is competing with HP, Lenovo, SONY but not Microsoft. Apple switching to Intel was a good thing for Microsoft as it lead to increase of their user base. Steve Ballmer should see Apple as a potential partner in business rather than a rival. Vista ran best on the Mac when it was introduced, doesn't that say something. Plus even if Apple gained market share, lets say Apple's market share becomes 10%, the number one application sold/sought after on the mac is Microsoft Office.
People should just get over their personal