Crow for one: ‘Microsoft’s Windows 7 will drive Mac market share below 5% by the end

the8thark · Dec 31, 2010

Crow for one: ‘Microsoft’s Windows 7 will drive Mac market share below 5% by the end of 2010’
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This dude got it wrong. So very wrong.

louishen · Dec 31, 2010

He was smoking something if he thought Win 7 would half Apple's share in a few short months

iggibar · Dec 31, 2010

~10% share down to 5% just because of windows 7? Unless they were to give out computers for free...hey, could've happened, they did give away W7P's(!)...I'm not really seeing how he thought it was going to happen.

osxx · Dec 31, 2010

If anything Apple's share has increased.

Chris H. · Jan 1, 2011

With Lion coming up, how much will it drop the Windows 7 market share?

MacGandalf · Jan 2, 2011

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The introduction of Win 7 from Microsoft confirmed my decision to migrate to the Mac platform.

the8thark · Jan 2, 2011

In Windows 7's defence it's actually a rather good OS. The next XP in my opinion. Vista as tripe that should have never have been released. I don't think Windows 7 is better than SL or Lion will be. But W7 does get the job done.

wavinwayne · Jan 2, 2011

the8thark said:
In Windows 7's defence it's actually a rather good OS. The next XP in my opinion. Vista as tripe that should have never have been released. I don't think Windows 7 is better than SL or Lion will be. But W7 does get the job done.

I have to agree with you. IMO, W7 is a very slick OS. I have it on a netbook and enjoy using it very much. As far as Vista goes, I am running it on my office PC, and it is nowhere near the dog it was when it was released. In fact with SP2 and all updates installed, I actually enjoy using Vista. Bottom line for me: W7 is not "better" or "worse" than OS X, but to each his own.

Z mannn R2 · Jan 3, 2011

I'm not understanding.....thats a Q3 chart....Q4 is where his prediction is....and it aint out yet

But he's still smokin crack lol!

kribensis12 · Jan 3, 2011

I think W7 is a good OS, but not near as good as OS X. Am I the only one who sees a striking similarity between the two? I feel as if a 12 year old took a paper and pen and drew the opening page for OS X and gave it to engineers who made it into W7. That could be just me though. I think I will like Lion. I will definitely want to use a computer with it installed before I purchase it.

ZachUSAman · Jan 4, 2011

his predictions are very flawed...
its like saying that because I'm sitting at my desk right now, I'll still be sitting here 3 months later and that I'm going to soon starve to death.

ezcompane · Jan 4, 2011

Chris H. said:
With Lion coming up, how much will it drop the Windows 7 market share?

I'm also curious to see how the next Apple OS will fare. I'm not sure if I'm going to upgrade right away or not like I did with Snow Leopard, but I will eventually.

the8thark said:
In Windows 7's defence it's actually a rather good OS. The next XP in my opinion. Vista as tripe that should have never have been released. I don't think Windows 7 is better than SL or Lion will be. But W7 does get the job done.

Agreed. Win7 just brought Windows back up to where they left off with XP. I still have XP installed on Bootcamp, but I do like Win7 that's on my Netbook.

XJ-linux · Jan 4, 2011

There seems to be quite a future in making incorrect predictions about technology given some of these tech writers track records. I have very little interest in the opinions of tech pundits/fanboys, sports writers and chair-bourne rangers. I'm betting there is plenty of room in the world for OS X, Windows, Linux, etc...