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[i]there isn’t room in their big egos for even a slight awareness that there is a better alternative in Apple’s products.[/i] :) it's not ego, my friend. It's mailnly ignorance. Or fear to make a mistake.

I am very long time Windows user, who switched to OS X at home about half-a-year ago. I love my iMac. And my better one loves her iBook. My private support effort declined to zero since I've got her that iBook. Instead of calling me and asking how to do this or that, she's actually helping me to find the stuff as OS X is much more intuitive then the whole MS Intellisense crap. I'm thinking of founding my own company, I'm sure Mac would be my platform there. Not because I just like it, but objectiveley, it's just better and I can understand how and what would I have to setup to cover the small/medium business tasks. Now, today OS X has no chance for a massive change whatsoever and there are objective reasons for it. First and basically the only reason is Apple's marketing strategy. They give a $shit about corporate customer. I was at Apple Expo in Paris this year and I was really really disappointed. I would love to sit with someone and discuss couple of serious questions, relevant to the corporate word, see how they see Apple office operating, understand TCO etc. etc. but I couldn't find anyone! There was also nobody to talk on the systems questions and explain me what components are included into the OS X Server. At the end, there was nobody to discuss streaming video, my particular subject of interest. Just a bunch of low-skilled primitive salesmen, that pushed me between themselves until I got tired and gave up. Instead, I've seen there pretty impressive number of small software companies with mainly personal use type of things and yes, big way creative computing. After some additional investigation and reading, I've come to the solid conclusion that Apple is not investing a bit today, in order to build it's market share in the corporate world. And there are reasons for it. Objectively, OS X isn't ready to meet today's office usage style demands (synchronized network folders for example - works terribly slow on PC but the concept is brilliant) or redefine it with something different and I'm sure much more efficient and better in case of Apple. Office applications are suffering: MS Office for Apple is just a lousy copy for a home use. And apparently, it's not native => slower on Intel Macs. Freware versions seem to be better and already native on Intel Mac but incomplete - I have failed to find a spreadsheet with more then 65K rows - that's critical for me. There is certain incompatibility of the office scripting language with the PC-based offices, that undermines the switch a bit - you want to be compatible with the others. I have just given you couple of examples creating real technical limitation and I'm not even mentioning the other unreal ones like availability of applications, for example. PC users have no idea how much it is already embedded and built-into the OS X itself but they have no comparison or educational material to learn it. They do not realize that all those millions of applications available for PC they would never need for Mac because most of them are just naturally built into the Operating System. And yes, back to the same point again - Apple is not interested at this point, they do not invest there, they do not develop this market at all right now.