Windows 7 left OSX in the dust. If It weren’t for Apple’s hip gay urban core buyers, sales would plummet. iPad mania is pathetic, a fad, a testimony to marketing which is Apple’s only strong point
Windows 8 will widen the lead. Good ol American competition. Microsoft is a giant that has been woken up and will trounce Apple. Jobs died in time to miss this.
I use 7 and OSX and they have pretty similar useability overall. In hardware my netbook was 1/3 the price of my macbook air, but the SSD and power saving features in the air are exemplary. The differences come in what you are trying to accomplish. Large doc creation needs Word, Pages is not sufficient. In light graphics and web site development the Air has a small advantage in productivity. For casual use and web surfing, especially to sites with dubious content, Mac’s OS and browser offer superior safety with add-ons like click-to-flash. For software development, which is my job, I actually prefer Windows minus the cumbersome crutch of Visual Studio. Both Microsoft’s automatically generated code and Apple’s large code base and environment distract from the real task of programming which is writing your own code. The flexibility of hitting Win7 at a variety of API levels including good old win32 is what convinces me that Windows will keep winning for now.
I have both, and would strongly disagree. Windows 7 is a solid OS, but I much prefer using OS X on a daily basis (as both a user and as the family's admin). If it wasn't for all the kids' software that only runs on Windows, I probably wouldn't even have the Win 7 machine.