Now you have got to be sh!tting me. You can't really stand there and tell me you dig Apple harder than MS...
Um no, that's not what I said at all. I said
just look at the Apple OS vs Windows 3.1. No contest whatsoever at to which one was better.
Windows 3.1 came nowhere near Apple's ease of use and lack o' crashes. And yet, somehow MS dominated the market. Mostly by realising that OS's trumped machines and by wisely getting manufacturers to put the Windows OS on their machines before they realised what kind of dominance that would give Microsoft. Sneaky tactic, but it sure worked.
Which brings me back to my original point. MS does not dominate the market through the sheer brilliance and power of its' products. It does it by being more bastardly then anybody else.
The market this article talks about dominated by MS. It is dominated by Unix box makers like HP and Sun. Those are the companies that are getting hurt the most by companies switching to Linux.
MS's main worry is that as companies get used to using Linux on the backend, they may start experimenting with using Linux on the desktop. That is where MS could be hurt. That is why MS is trying to kill Linux in the server market.