[phoxix2]

I feared the day the pro-Apple kidiots would take over HN ...

This article tells us nothing we did not know, provides no meaningful insight, and then tells us in no-way-shape-or-form exactly hhhoooowwww Apple is bettering its brand.

To the Apple lovers: Notice how the tens of millions of corporate desktops are <i>sticking</i> to Windows XP. They aren't switching to Apple, and couldn't due to a lack of a proper Exchange client, nor advanced Active Directory features ...

I guess its too late for HN :^(

[pcc]

Could you clarify how you extrapolate from this article to "pro-Apple kidiots are taking over HN?"

To me it seems the article is only talking about trends and survey results, is not espousing any particular "Apple Love" and is not aiming to delve into the mechanics of how Apple is bettering its brand -- its merely making observation.

Your comment to Apple lovers really applies to Linux as well, so I'm not sure why you need to make the distinction.

I guess corporate users would generally move their desktops (either to the next version, or to something else) because they feel it creates extra value (maybe better stability, easier management or whatever), and this outweighs the cost of the change. Or, from fear that if they don't keep up, in future they may be stuck with a larger problem.

Corporate desktops that are sticking to XP aren't moving anywhere; not even to Vista/7. Obviously nobody is creating sufficient incremental value - yet. Thus, one really can infer nothing as to where they might end up migrating down the road.

Lack of "proper exchange client" or "advanced active directory features" (?) also probably doesn't mean much -- its not as if anyone has the "One True Way (tm)" of doing email, scheduling or ldap. Corps do walk away from Exchange/AD (or any other technology for that matter) if sufficient value is added overall.

[billswift]

Actually, the article seems to regret the way Microsoft looks like it's about to shoot itself somewhere very painful (after having already shot itself in the foot with Vista).

[edd]

You can very easily plug a mac in to an exchange based organisation. I know I have plugged one in to what was the largest exchange install outside of Microsoft's own campus. You can very easily make it map on to Active Directory, mount your Active Directory home folder and even use all of the exchange email and calendar functionality using office for mac. The reason organisations aren't switching from xp is because they trust it, its stable and it can do everything they need their users to be able to do.

[electromagnetic]

All my interactions with Mac (I'm a windows user, my brother got a fair dose of Macintosh fever a few years ago) have been exceptionally easy.

I never had a problem connecting the computers, the biggest problem was that file types weren't compatible. However, with any incomparability problems I just went the old fashioned way of RTF and CSV to get the job done.

For everything else, well there's always Boot Camp.

[mechanical_fish]

What are you talking about? This isn't a pro-Apple article, despite its protective coloration. As you point out, the article isn't even about Apple. And the author hardly sounds like a partisan fan of Apple, or even of Linux. His tone is that of someone who is being forced to go on a particularly unpleasant diet.

[krschultz]

I feared the day when HN would be taken over by people who don't even bother to read the article

[unalone]

Your account is thirty-five days old.

You're on a web site for a company headed by a notorious Macbook Air user.

To italicize, use astericks.

I don't know why the word "how" was stretched out to awful proportions.

A carot for a nose is just silly.

The word "kidiot" is worse than the word "luser".