Filed under: Enterprise, Leopard
Leopard smites Vista in corporate satisfaction
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jason said 4:06PM on 3-27-2008
That title is like "Garry Kasparov beats Britney Spears at Chess". Quelle surprise.
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Sean Flanagan said 4:21PM on 3-27-2008
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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Zoli said 4:27PM on 3-27-2008
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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itgoy07 said 6:58PM on 3-27-2008
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.
Chris said 1:07PM on 3-28-2008
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.
Zoli said 1:09PM on 3-28-2008
This is not true. I work in an IT company, and large corporations use clustered exchange servers, they used notes 10 years ago.
tcbritt said 5:18PM on 3-27-2008
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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chuck said 5:32PM on 3-27-2008
1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA
tcbritt said 5:20PM on 3-27-2008
Misspelled "Leopard", sorry. Now if I was working on a Mac, Safari would have caught that embarrassing error.
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Dave S said 5:34PM on 3-27-2008
"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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Ian Scott said 6:25PM on 3-27-2008
The picture in the post is of a Tiger box, not a Leopard box.
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Sam W said 7:45PM on 3-27-2008
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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Todd said 9:29PM on 3-27-2008
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/pwn-2-own-over-macbook-air-gets-seized-in-2-minutes-flat/
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CL said 9:49PM on 3-27-2008
I like how they somehow "didn't notice" that news here at tuaw.
Michael Rose said 8:34AM on 3-28-2008
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.