When you thank about it, apple make the best computers, even if they are expensive they are reliable, and id think they would have a bigger market share without Microsoft. Mac OS X is superior to any Windows version to date, and has a large user base. The switch campaign is apparently working as well. But lets think deeper, Microsoft and Apple have a had a relation ship before. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft could quite easily drop Office X for MacOsX, and there Mactopia and many other things that would leave more corporate users switching to PC. So why do Microsoft keep water the apple tree for them?
Well when you think about it Apple and Microsoft could be working together. Microsoft is for the cheaper hardware and apple is for the higher class. Because when you think about it apple are not that great either, there ethics are better and the kind of people who buy good software and hardware like good ethics. But Microsoft who sell the lower end slack off on the ethics because the people who buy it, care about it about as much as serial killer thinks of other peoples feelings. Which makes me think... Apple+Microsoft=Full Monopoly-Linux.
Linux being the operating system that jumped in the middle and decided to screw with the works of Microsoft and apples plan. Apple ignore it, up until 2000, 2002... Where they suck up-to it because the Nixer's will love the idea of OS-X, and them releasing the Darwin Source code.
But why would apple suck up to Nixer's and Microsoft make plans to stop it when... if they are a big monopoly secretly working together? (Ill get locked up in an asylum for all this...)
Well maybe Microsoft, even if it has got Billions of dollars. Is just an expendable resource and when the time is right they release an Operating System with the versatility of Unix and the User Friendliness of apple. Hence they planed on Microsoft being broken up, had there "perfect" operating system in planning for a while. And everything was set... when... boom... Linux comes out of nowhere. where are we going to do about this. Well you know the saying... "If you cant beat them join-em". Microsoft did try and crush it with FUD tactics, but seamlessly failed... But apple released the source for Darwin... sucking up. They also will get more Nixer's loving them if they are behind Microsoft's breakup...
Microsoft could be one huge publicity stunt!
So what is possible from all this:
a) Apple is the dominator in it all.
b) Apple are ballsucking the Unixers.
c) Microsoft is scared of Apple
d) Microsoft+Apple=Domination.
