ComputerWorld posts that ChangeWave Research has studied satisfaction levels for corporate users of Leopard and Windows Vista. As you might expect, the Leopard users are altogether more satisfied than Vista users -- up to 5 times more likely to report that they're "very satisfied" with their operating system -- but you might not have known the following:
- Leopard reinforces tooth enamel and ensures brighter, happier smiles.
- Leopard users are more likely to find attractive mates.
- Vista users are subject to early hair loss.
- Leopard helps eliminate embarrassing halitosis.
- Vista users are five times likelier to be audited by the IRS.
- Leopard washes your windows and leaves lemon-scented stacks of pre-folded laundry around your house.
Okay, well maybe not. Consult the ComputerWorld article for the (far less amusing) statistical results. One worthwhile number to note: while 7% of respondents said they'd be buying Apple laptops in the next 90 days, a hold-steady from the previous survey, the likelihood of most other laptop purchases went down since the last time they asked. A MacBook Air effect?
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3-27-2008 @ 4:06PM
Jason said...
That title is like "Garry Kasparov beats Britney Spears at Chess". Quelle surprise.
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3-27-2008 @ 4:21PM
Sean Flanagan said...
FTA: "More than half -- 53% -- of the computers companies plan to buy in the second quarter will be equipped with Windows XP"
They better do it in the 2nd quarter. Sales of XP stop June 30.
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3-27-2008 @ 4:27PM
Zoli said...
Yes, but then again, most major corporations aren't on mac at all. Like the iPhone was, the mac can't be majorly adopter in corporations without full exchange support- entourage doesn't quite cut it.
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3-27-2008 @ 6:58PM
itgoy07 said...
Puhlease.
Exchange is garbage and only suited for small-medium businesses. It does scale, but scales poorly and requires lots of work to keep it up.
Large Corporations use other e-mail apps. Like Notes - it's used by most of the really big companies because it scales well, is reliable and is not tied to Windows. IIRC the stats are 40/40 Notes and Exchange with 20% in the other column. And some of the biggest names in the bussiness world use Notes....
Sorry, Exchange support is a poor reason to choose a platform.
If nothing else, your IT staff should be looking to migrate AWAY from Exchange.
3-28-2008 @ 1:07PM
Chris said...
What are you smoking dude? Notes is the worst piece of junk I have ever had the displeasure of using. My current company is planning to switch from Exchange to Notes. I'm thinking of quitting. Or maybe I'll just forward everything to Gmail to sheild myself from the FAIL that is Lotus Notes.
3-28-2008 @ 1:09PM
Zoli said...
This is not true. I work in an IT company, and large corporations use clustered exchange servers, they used notes 10 years ago.
3-27-2008 @ 5:18PM
tcbritt said...
There are corporations that run Leapord? So you get to work with Macs running Leapord and they pay you for it? Where do I sign up?
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3-27-2008 @ 5:32PM
chuck said...
1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA
3-27-2008 @ 5:20PM
tcbritt said...
Misspelled "Leopard", sorry. Now if I was working on a Mac, Safari would have caught that embarrassing error.
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3-27-2008 @ 5:34PM
Dave S said...
"the mac can't be majorly adopter"..."entourage doesn't quite cut it".
Yes, as a matter of fact - it does. BTDT and never going back if I can help it. And yes, it was at a "major corporation".
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3-27-2008 @ 6:25PM
Ian Scott said...
The picture in the post is of a Tiger box, not a Leopard box.
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3-27-2008 @ 7:45PM
Sam W said...
they must not have asked too many people on the OS X Server forums... Frequent post there is is 10.5 server ready... Knowing the problems i have gone though to get our two 10.5 servers running I can say i am looking forward to 10.5.3 and .4 and... there are some good # of problems on the server end yet to be sorted out. Though that has not stopped me from ordering our 3rd 10.5 server...
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3-27-2008 @ 9:29PM
Todd said...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/pwn-2-own-over-macbook-air-gets-seized-in-2-minutes-flat/
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3-27-2008 @ 9:49PM
CL said...
I like how they somehow "didn't notice" that news here at tuaw.
3-28-2008 @ 8:34AM
Michael Rose said...
Todd, we have a follow-up on the CanSecWest story now.
CL, did you really think that after covering the contest yesterday, we were going to ignore the MBA being won? C'mon.