I didn't mean they are concerned about Macs; there is no reason they should be. That was just part of the point about them being in different markets. Apple dominates one and Microsoft dominates the other.

What you say about tablets should not be news to anyone. When MS actually becomes a player in that market is when I will believe it.

>It isn't Macs that has Microsoft concerned. It's iPads. They are everywhere. Executives use them and want to connect to the corporate network. Use them for email. The uses are expanding. The doctor or nurse making rounds in the hospital. The foreman on the loading dock. The warehouse inventory clerk. The salesman visiting a customer.
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>If it weren't for the iPad, there wouldn't be such radical changes coming to Windows 8. Everything is being redesigned for touch, which means tablets.
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>Microsoft is responding. Why did they announce this week that there will be a SQL Server ODBC driver for Linux?
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>>IMO if they are, they shouldn't be. Apple is almost in a different market than Microsoft. Apple's products are consumer electronics. Microsoft keeps trying to compete there (phones, tablets) but they aren't getting anywhere. Meanwhile Mac sales remain a small percentage of PC sales.
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>>I'm not saying Linux / open source are going to take over the world but they do represent a direct threat to Microsoft's money machine, Windows.
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>>JOMO....