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Mac vs windows
Information Technology (BS - IT)
Capitol University
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Mac vs. Windows
- Apple sued Microsoft after the released of Windows
- Claiming that they copied the “look and feel” of the Macintosh OS
- Microsoft defended themselves
- Each claiming to have a better OS and software.
- Microsoft has always had the larger market share
Mac v Windows (continued)
- Apple
- Favorite of artist, musicians, and technology elite
- Provides computers to elementary schools
Why Is Microsoft So Dominant in the Business World
- Almost all businesses used IBM mainframe computers back in 1960s and 1970s.
- Released the PC in 1981
- In purchasing PC for their employees, they would choose the safe route
- “No one ever got fired for buying IBM”
Why Is Microsoft So Dominant in the Business World
- Over the decade, companies bought IBM PC
- Started with DOS, when Microsoft released Windows, companies took the safe route
Why Is Microsoft So Dominant in the
- We only spend our hard-earned money to digital devices that actually do something useful.
- Is an application that becomes so essential that large numbers of people will buy a device just to run that application.
- In 1979, the VisiCalc
- The first personal-computer spreadsheet package
- An immediate hit and drove sales of the Apple II
The “Killer” App
- It also solidified the value of the personal computer beyond the relatively small circle of technology geeks.
- When the IBM PC was released, another spreadsheet program, Lotus 1-2-3, was the killer app for business users.
Productivity Software (continued)
Standard tools for the workplace
Allow employees to complete their daily work.
Comes in package
Word processing
Provides the creation of documents.
Ability to type and edit text, format fonts and paragraphs, and add, move and delete text throughout the document.
Modern word processing programs have the ability to add table, images and formatting features to the document.
Productivity Software (continued)
Word processing
Save document as electronic files in a variety formats.
Most popular is Microsoft Word (save file in DOCX format) Productivity Software (continued)
Spreadsheet
Provides way to do numeric calculations and analysis.
Working are is divided into Rows and column, where users can enter numbers, text or formulas.
Allowing the user to develop complex calculations that can change based on the numbers entered.
Create chart
Microsoft Excel is the most popular(XLSX format)
Productivity Software (continued)
Mac vs windows
Course: Information Technology (BS - IT)
University: Capitol University
