Why Majority of CIOs Abstain from Mac

Although it's like an established fact that Microsoft Windows has a market share of more than 92% and with the recent release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Apple has gained 8% of market share, there are other reasons majority of the CIOs stay away from don't like a Mac.

Nearly all the business users can't and don't make a change just because of the bells and whistles of a Operating System. Hardware compatibility and new user training issues are the first that CIOs have to consider before making an OS swith.

And it's a situation that looks unlikely to change. A recent poll of the Silicon.com CIO Jury found that none of the IT chiefs surveyed said the release of Snow Leopard will prompt their businesses to adopt Apple desktops.

Apple Releases OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 on Aug 28 2009

"Snow Leopard builds on our most successful operating system ever and we're happy to get it to users earlier than expected," said Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering. "For just $29, Leopard users get a smooth upgrade to the world's most advanced operating system and the only system with built in Exchange support."

Apple Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Apple's retail stores and Apple authorized resellers, and Apple's online store is now accepting pre-orders.

To create Snow Leopard, Apple engineers refined 90 percent of the more than 1,000 projects that make up Mac OS X. Users will notice refinements including a more responsive Finder; Mail that loads messages up to twice as fast; Time Machine with an up to 80 percent faster initial backup; a Dock with Expose integration; QuickTime X with a redesigned player that allows users to easily view, record, trim and share video; and a 64-bit version of Safari 4 that is up to 50 percent faster and resistant to crashes caused by plug-ins. Snow Leopard is half the size of the previous version and frees up to 7GB of drive space once installed.

Microsoft Continues to Attack Apple on the TV and now Online too...

Microsoft has been attacking Apple for a long time now but this time Microsoft beyond ever before!!! We lately saw a series of TV ad campaign assaults on Apple and now it's gone beyond the TV. You've guessed it!!! The Web.

In an online area, Web surfers can spin a wheel and get a comparison of products for the same price. Now when you choose a a Mac you get pocket lint, and when you choose a PC you can get two other things of value. The ad is called "Spin before you Spend".

Microsoft Attacks Apple's Pricing:

Microsoft CEO Ballmer laughs at Apple iPhone:



And Here's Spin Before You Spend ad:



Let's see where the war ends!!!