This might be an age old question but do read the answer below.
It is because people need computers for different purposes. In
a large corporation with 100′000 employees attached to a corporate
network, you simply can’t hook everyone up with Macs, They aren’t
designed for that sort of scale and they lack the huge variety of admin
tools for managing the networks, mass deployment of software, etc. So
it’s Windows. Period.
If you work in a
design agency with a dozen people and you like sparkly things, then
you’ll be happy with a Mac. You’re paying up to twice the amount of
money for the same amount of storage space and processing power (or more
if you have a Mac (not book) Pro. But all our design agency partners
use Macs, because they are so accustomed to Adobe products running great
on Mac. Nowadays, they run just as well under Windows. I work about 50%
on Mac and 50% on Windows.
I actually enjoy
working in both environments, but could honestly kick Microsoft in the
knee-cap for still, even with Office 2016 having such differences in
document compatibility under Office 2016 for Mac and Office 2016 for
Windows. I mean, WHY can’t I resize the column of table in PPT on my Mac
be telling it each column needs to be 7.45 cm wide?* Why can I only
drag it and not be precise? Works fine under Windows. Or why does the
Mac version not have a Selection Pane (Alt F10 under Windows)? This is
so insanely useful in Word and PPT, and Mac Office simply doesn’t have
it. Madness. I could never switch completely to Mac because Office for
Mac simply doesn’t have these features.
Some
people use a computer for checking on Facebook and answering the odd
e-mail. Guess what? It doesn’t make any difference what you use for that
sort of basic stuff. Use an iPad. Use a PC, use an AirBook, use your
Smartphone. Use a Chromebook…
But the reason not “some” but most people
still use Windows machines instead of Macs is because most people use
their machines for work, and not for watching amusing videos of cats
playing in boxes. And “for work”, for most people, means writing
reports, correspondence, invoices, etc. Or doing horrendously complex
financial calculations or accounting using Excel. Yeah - you COULD do
some of that with Office for Mac, but as Office for Mac still doesn’t
even support Add-Ins (VBA - Visual Basic for Applications add-ins*) - so
only limited macro programming is possible… So Mac Office is only good
for basic stuff. Microsoft is gradually opening up VBA support on Office
(2016) for Mac, but you still can’t take VBA from a Windows environment
and just slot it into Office for Mac, so only limited customisation of
templates for a corporate environment is possible under Office for Mac.
No corporate helper add-ins like many large companies use. It’s just not
part of the Mac approach.
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