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I am not sure if Adobe<\/a> is that important.<\/p>\n

But the underlying question that Apple is indeed challenging Microsoft’s operating system monopoly is interesting. And not news to me.<\/p>\n

What I had not realised is the vertical integration depth of all those Office applications and macros arouund it. This will most likely not go away. Ever. Vista will have a chance if all those tiny little visual basic thingies continue to work.<\/p>\n

Those IT monsters will not go away. They rather turn the internet off of safety and glue the CDROM drives shut before they try to migrate those tangled webs of IT gopher tape to \/anything\/ that is different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not sure if Adobe is that important. But the underlying question that Apple is indeed challenging Microsoft’s operating system monopoly is interesting. And not news to me. What I had not realised is the vertical integration depth of all those Office applications and macros arouund it. This will most likely not go away. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nApple vs Microsoft: The Evolving Tech Landscape of 2006<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Analyzing Apple's challenge to Microsoft's OS monopoly. 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