The interesting thing is that Microsoft was nudging Apple to port their software to the PC environment decades ago. Word and Excel were the dominant office programs on Macs long before they nudged out WordPerfect and Lotus123 on PCs, so Microsoft didn't have a lot to lose. Apple's management saw their future with high priced computer hardware (Macs were about 60% more expensive than comparable PC systems and each sale netted Apple a $1000 in profits). The Mac operating system was seen as a competitive edge for selling the hardware and releasing that software in a PC environment would have negated reasons to buy Apple computers. For a while, there was a Mac-like OS for PCs, GEM, but Apple sued them for being too similar to their OS and eventually Windows 3.1 shunted GEM aside before it ever had a chance to go anywhere. Apparently, GEM is still around as freewhere for low end PCs. In hindsight, Apple's management has come to regret their early decisions, but most would not have done anything different based on the information they had at the time. If Apple is finally porting their OS to PCs, it's a little too late. For somebody who's never used a PC before, there's some reason to look at Apple. There are enough differences between Windows and OSX that it's a bit of a bother switching once somebody is comfortable with the OS they're using. Unless there's an application that's only available on one OSX, there's little real reason to switch.

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