It isn't just consumers. Businesses love Leopard (and hate Vista) too.

The more competition, the better

The more competition, the better for us, users. I am glad that Microsoft need to work harder to satisfy their customers. We have a choice!

I use Vista every day, but I like Mac OS X better.

I am a software programmer that uses PC on a daily (or hourly) basis. My main computer is a QuadCore PC with 3GB RAM running Vista. I have a two-year-old Mac Mini with only 512MB of RAM running OS X. I am constantly surprised that an entry-level Mac Mini can have such a fluid graphical response and user experience. Of course, I am still going to use a PC for my daily programming tasks, but I am seriously considering buying a MacBook for everything else that I do.

Vista is okay. But I have spent so much time on its incompatibility issues and permission problems... Microsoft may believe that they are directing the future of software, but every once in a while, they need to stop directing and just listen to what users want.

Mac vs Vista

Vista forced me to look at a Apple computer, which I had never really bothered to do, but I liked what I saw and bought one. Best PC I have ever purchased. Couldn`t believe how easy it worked and worked and worked….. you know, work, that stuff you did in-between upgrading windows, fixing windows, re-installing windows.

It's sad really. When you

It's sad really. When you hear that Apple is only 6-8% of all the computer out there, and only about 1-2% in the buinsess world. And I can only assume most of those are at graphics artist, editors and so on. It's sad, because of the little use they have in the business world, I would expect more like 95% happy with them.

Well done Ballmer

Ballmer is determined to bring down one of the largest financial empires single handedly! He could have just said - we won't force people to buy Vista with new PCs everyone gets a choice. He could have said - OK vista capable was a mistake - we'll either fix Vista or refund the price of the OS. He could have said - we'll make SP1 fix the incredibly bad performance of Vista on even the newest processors with 2gigs of memory and fast hard drives. He could have said - skip SP1, Vista is a dud - let's throw away all the code for Vista and move forward with Windows 7. He could have actually listened to beta testers who mentioned how much Vista slows down equipment. He could actually listen in press conferences when people talk about the problems with Vista instead of ignoring them and just say MS sold a lot of licenses for Vista. He could have listened when there was a petition created with over 100,000 votes to extend service for XP. He could have listened when the public said we hate Vista so much we want to be able to use the license to install a better OS - XP. He could have listened when all the hardware manufacturers said Vista isn't selling well, we need to offer XP. But nope he managed to IGNORE all of that and insist he was right about Vista and everyoene else in the world is wrong.