Code Perspective

According to an article found at PCWorld found Here Apple Inc. is planning on releasing a marketing campaign on the same day as the expected Windows 7 release.

With pc sales in the states alone only growing 2.5 percent from September, and Mac sales growing 11.8 percent, I think it’s clear who has won over majority of the fans in this case. With PC users frustrated with Vista, the switch over to Windows 7 may not go as smoothly as people may think. With most of the PC population still using XP, the switch to windows 7 may be a long and tedious process.

Keeping all this in mind, with Apple’s snow leopard priced at 35$(30$ US), it’s in an extremely good position to do some serious damage to the PC market share. Also, with the introduction of a strong anti-Windows 7 marketing campaign, Apple could be in an ever better spot come the holiday season. Also, with some rumored hardware changes to come before Christmas or just after the new year, Apple is looking better than ever to gain some ground on the software giant Microsoft.

As some of you may know I am an open source advocate. The ability to modify and change the source code of your application to make it work the way you want to is a huge plus. With Microsoft being one of many companies that keeps it’s doors closed when it comes to it’s source code, it makes it extremely difficult to maintain a trustworthy relationship between customers and developers.

Recently however, Microsoft has released the ASP.NET source code. The article found here outlines the details of the release.

I do think that a bigger step is needed to fully gain the acceptance of the open source community. However i do think it is a major step in the right direction. I would like to see another major jump for other companies to go the open source route. Customers having the ability to review the source code to make sure there are not “hooks” inside the code. I think by doing this, customers of Microsoft will have eventually begin to regain the company’s trust. But, I’m not sure it will be in time.

Cheers