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Windows 5x More Expensive than Mac OS X

There’s a great article on one person’s perspective on the cost of XP versus OSX.  Very good read.  Most people forget (when factoring in costs) that EVERY single copy of XP needs to also have a) Virus protection b) Spyware.

How much does it cost to maintain Windows and Mac OS X? Since Apple has released five times as many major updates and over fifteen times as many minor updates to Mac OS X since 2000, you might not have guessed that Windows actually costs users five times as much to keep up to date!
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After the NeXT takeover, Apple stepped up efforts to productize the OS, and released minor updates to the languishing System 7 as Mac OS 8 and 9. The real efforts, however, were directed at delivering a version of Mac OS X that Mac users would pay money for, in order to support its development. It wasn’t until Jaguar that Apple had an operating system that it could sell in serious quantity.