There is a lot of buzz on the 2 million sales generated by Apple on their Leopard release and there isn’t a lot of positive notes when Microsoft sold 20 million Windows Vista licenses in the first month, 40 million copies in the first 100 days, 60 million copies in July and now 88 million copies.

It is funny how a lot of reports says that Microsoft sales is declining, its incompatability issues have made people wary of upgrading or buying Windows Vista and so on and so forth. Now, with only a pathetic 2 million Leopard sales, media is saying that it is going to outsell Windows Vista with a staggering margin?

Based on reports I have read here and here, Leopard is so glorified and powerful because of its Time Machine feature & Security Parental enhancements—how pathetic, a backup and parental guidance feature.

We have already enjoyed the backup and restore option of Windows Vista, and the User Access Control plus all the security features included in Vista for so many months already. I could not understand how people blasted and became so annoyed with the popup screen brought about by UAC which in fact provides them with an added security feature. Also, it takes ten seconds to disable them at their preference.

It is normal if you come from ground zero to get 2 million copies sold over the weekend; but I haven’t heard of any other compelling feature why a user would give himself a headache figuring out all the converters he needs to migrate each and every application and files to MAC. Leopard doesn’t provide any compelling reason to migrate and at the same time carries with it vulnerabilities any Vista user wouldn’t want to worry about.

Let the MAC users and media glorify Leopard; in the end, all that matters is the bottomline—88 million shipments for Vista and growing.