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Interesting. So it's not "beat Microsoft" anymore. That must hurt in Redmond...

• Daniel_Newby 16y ago
  Good point. When did that change?!
  • MikeCapone 16y ago
    I'd suspect around the time the iPhone 3GS came out, but that's just the way it felt to me.
• tzs 16y ago
  Perhaps the idea is that if you can't beat Apple, then you can't beat something bigger either, such as Microsoft.
  • MikeCapone 16y ago
    Right now I'd say that by many metrics, Apple is beating Microsoft. Its products are much hotter in the marketplace, its stock is doing better, and its products are considered better by most.
• Tamerlin 16y ago
  Probably not... MS' dominance on the desktop isn't in any immediate danger, and MS is the puny upstart in the mobile market. (There's also the arrogance thing over there.) It sounds a lot like the UNIX vs UNIX (et all) vs NT thing, too. Back when NT was new, the UNIX vendors had better hardware as well as more mature OS's... but they were too fragmented to stop the rise of the legion of computer vendors using x86 and Windows, and didn't start paying attention until Intel eclipsed almost all of them. (There's really only one left.)