Does Windows 7 Threaten Mac OS and Linux?
Does a good OS from Microsoft put the pressure back on Apple and the Linux development community? After all, both the Mac OS and Linux have benefitted from the fact that early adopters of Vista experienced declared the OS a lemon, with the worldwide market share in both OSes climbing significantly over the past couple of years.
Putting my Windows 7 beta experience together with the experiences of others that I have come across on forums, blogs and in person, it would seem that Windows 7 has the makings of being a good OS, better than both XP and Vista no matter what metric you use to measure. To be sure, I expect that Vista will slowly but surely sink into history and eventually be labeled Windows ME MKII (which is a bit of a shame because Vista with SP1 installed is a very good OS … but those early adopters who got burned will be the ones with the final say).
But given that Microsoft will once again have an OS that they can feel proud of, and that users won’t hate or dismiss out of hand, does this mean that the easy ride that the Mac OS and Linux distros have had over the past few years is over?
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