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Head to Head: A World of Computers

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Head to Head: A World of Computers
The world has come a long way with its development of technology. Day-by-day the people who are using and relying on technology have dramatically increased. But out of all these new technologies, the computer is probably one of the most important, if not the most. And two operating systems have been competing with each other from the beginning. These two companies are Apple with their Mac and Microsoft with their Windows PC. Although both Apple and Microsoft have created great machines they differ when it comes down to price, design and operating system, and popularity.
There is no question that when talking about computers the word price always comes up. Macs are known to not be the cheapest computer …show more content…

Which at the end of the day tends to be more appealing to the consumer. Both Microsoft and Apple have developed their own operating system Apple’s latest OS Mavericks and Microsoft’s Windows 8. On one hand Microsoft’s windows 8 has several applications inside its operating system that make appealing to consumers. On of these applications is Microsoft office. This application combines Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, and is used everyday in businesses, schools, and homes across the globe. On the other hand Macs have the option to ruin Microsoft office on their operating system. At the same time they offer and application called iWork which is essentially Apple’s “Microsoft office”, this includes: Pages, a program similar to word, Numbers, Apple’s version of excel and Keynote the PowerPoint of Macs. Mac also have to feature to fully run Microsoft window. Making it easy to toggle form Windows to Mac on the same computer. Such feature is only available on Mac. PCs however cannot run Apple’s software unless the use a third party application, this makes the transition between Apple’s software to Microsoft Windows not as smoothly on a PC compared to a Mac. Despite the fact that these to computers have very similar operating systems the popularity on each has shifted a lot in the past years.
Both of these computers have become extremely popular in the past decade. The popularity of Apple’s Macs, short for

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