I hate those new Apple commercials with the two guys, but the one about Vista is rather funny, and true. If you have worked with Vista and kept the default security settings, it will annoy any power user to death! Working in the IT field, and at one time in graphic design, I'm familiar to Mac's and their is a ever so slight shift to move business systems to Macs. While overall I find that PC's in general are much more versatile, running a much larger variety of applications. It may in some instances be beneficial to switch your business to a Macintosh environment, although their is going to be somewhat of a learning curve.
The main things Mac benefits are fewer crashes, probably due to fewer hardware configurations, and a much lower profile when it comes to suffering from viruses and the like.
I think the mentality that is leading the way to a resurgence of Macs in the workplace is directly related to this statement; "Less is more At one time, loading on more features was the mantra. When the iPod came out, critics said it didn't match rival devices, which boasted FM radios and bigger hard drives. But users wanted fewer features, and better ease of use. "That's why the iPod succeeded where its predecessor products bombed," Read the full article here.
But still overall the deployment to most offices is just not going to work due to the limitation of available workplace software. And running mixed environments is hard on the IT staff. Not to mention the training costs involved. However if Unbuntu or another flavor of Linux ever gets to be easy to use as as a Macintosh, then I can see a mass migration into Linux. Just based on cost savings alone.
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