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OS Wars: the Battle for Your Desktop
posted by
Thom Holwerda
on Mon 10th Mar 2008 17:57 UTC, submitted by
CIozzio
PCMag
compared Ubuntu, Windows, and Mac OS X to one another
.
"Now that the major OSs all run on Intel chips, the playing field is pretty leveled out. We compared the heavy hitters in an eight-point test to find who wins the OS battle."
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