The initial vision of Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates was to put a computer on every desktop in every home. According to the latest estimates for the install base of each platform as of mid 2007, Windows is on top of the world. Near-monopoly would more accurately describe the Redmond company's dominant position with its operating system, or even a Windows saturation of the market.
#NUMBER OF USERS WINDOWS VS MAC OS VS LINUX 2010 MAC OS X#
Since both Linux and Mac OS X are valid alternative platforms to Windows, each with its own footprint on the operating system market, the concept of a Microsoft monopoly is not valid by any means.
The bottom line is that between the end of 2001 and early 2007, or from XP to Vista, neither Mac OS X nor Linux managed to dislodge Windows. But in the end it is not about Vista, or a specific version of the three operating systems. Success in this context is equivalent to a scenario where either Mac OS X or Linux, or both, would negatively influence the adoption of Vista to such an extent that Microsoft's share on the operating system with Windows would suffer and become eroded. It will not provide a conclusion over the superiority of one operating system alone and will only be limited to a total of three reasons why Mac OS X and Linux won't succeed against Windows Vista. Let me state from the get go that this is not a Mac OS X vs.
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