Windows and Leopard Don’t Compare
You can reasonably argue that in the commercial space, Windows is always Windows plus Office, and that the combination exceeds Leopard’s core capabilities in many ways. Setting cost aside for now, what Office opens to the user does not improve their productivity when they step outside Office. Indeed, there is an entire industry dedicated to creating desktops that effectively boot into Office and hide Windows entirely because, from the standpoint of IT, giving desktop users the run of Windows adds nothing but trouble. This is the reason behind Vista’s failure to thrive: IT doesn’t want a pretty Windows; IT wants a thin and invisible one, one out of users’ reach. Over time, Microsoft has filled out Office to function as a user’s sole interface, not only to the system, but to the network and the services wired into it. It usually falls to IT to extend Office’s capabilities at the server layer, and at great expense.
As much as the idea of a PC booting to Office appeals to IT, the idea of a Mac booting to Office is patently absurd.
People should really read this article and try to absorb what he’s saying. Comparing Windows to Mac OS X is unfortunate because they are so fundamentally different.
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