Apple is the primary user of the PowerPC family of microprocessors, which consistently outperforms the Pentium and Pentium Pro from Intel. The article contends that Macintosh is no longer state of the art, which is simply not true. Some very large companies, such as FedEx, are still big Macintosh users. The article is obviously written with an anti-Mac bias, demonstrated by listing corporations reviewing the status of the Mac with those that have abandoned it. They did not interview anyone who was sticking with the Macintosh or switching to it, which would have led to more balanced reporting. The Septemissue of The Wall Street Journal had an article emphasizing the corporate switch from Macintosh to the Wintel standard. Memo To: Company managers From: Dan Knight Date: SeptemRe: Macintosh vs. My favorite part is Stewart Alsop stating, “Windows is good enough, but just barely.” I share this as an interesting bit of Mac history. It was written in late 1996, when Windows 95 was making serious inroads by claiming to be “almost as good as the Mac.” This was not a good time for Apple: Between authorized Mac clones dividing the Mac OS market and Win 95 siphoning off business users, Apple was about to earn the label “beleagueared”. I ran across this memo on my hard drive at work.
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