[run4yourlives]

Funny thing is, I'm not sure if the windows market is where mac's are really making a dent. (yet)

From what I can tell, it seems more that users who would be ready to make the jump from windows to linux are opting for macs instead.

A rails conference I was at last year was 99% mac. I'd assume most of the web languages are the same. This is especially true in the laptop segment, which seems to be growing as well.

If I were apple, I'd stay the course. Looking at market shares when a vast majority of people aren't even replacing their xp boxes is kinda useless. Give it a year and those boxes will be a year older. Most of them won't be moving to vista.

[Tichy]

Why, it seems Apple is even worse than Windows when it comes to open systems? It seems to me a Linux user would be the least likely candidate for switching to OS X.

[run4yourlives]

The biggest reason is that most Linux apps are ported onto OSX a lot faster than they are windows.

There are a lot of people now that are attached more to open source applications than the platform itself.