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The happiest Vista customers: Mac users?

Are Mac users happier with Windows Vista than Windows users running Vista on other systems? That's the contention of one Microsoft blogger.
Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor

Microsoft blogger Joshua Allen has a post over on the Microsoft VisitMix blog that already has raised some Mac users' hackles.

In a post entitled, "Our Newest Vista OEM: Apple," Allen cites a few stats that are interesting (though, so far at least, not independently verifiable -- from what I can tell from the post). Allen said:

  • Vista runs great on Macs
  • Ten percent of all new Vista licenses are sold to Macintosh owners
  • Mac owners are more satisfied with Vista than average

Why are Mac users allegedly happier with Vista? Allen suggested a few theories that he mentioned in the comments on the original post. (His comments are not currently working; not sure if he closed them intentionally or this is just a temporary error.)

Allen said the fact that Mac users proactively choose Vista and don't have it foisted on them by a hardware vendor -- coupled with the fact that Macbooks are robust platforms that are well-suited to running Vista in emulation, using Bootcamp, etc. -- makes for more contented users.

Any feedback from users currently running Vista on their Macs?

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