SirKenin-
The two mac viruses you speak of, are of the following. 1 is a quick time codec, that asks for admin rights to install, which is actually malware. Yes, it exists but apple already patched it, and it requires the user to install it. The other virus actually was a web based exploit with webkit browsers through java. Not totally Apple's fault since they don't produce java, but the guy who won the contest to remotely exploit a mac had to bend the rules. In the last couple hours of the contest they were allowed to try to attack from the web, instead of over the network. The winner set up apache real quick, loaded his exploit and then pointed the machine to his web server. They never disclosed the full amount of details of what it atually did.
Then there is MOAB, and if you read through all of their blogs, you will see no one has been able to remotely exploit a mac yet with out some sort of social engineering, ie making a user click and install something they think is legit software. Also those are not self propagating, and they require user interaction. There was also a virus that went through ichat but it couldn't do anything either with out admin rights. That is because nothing can access the kernel with out permission via the shell.
I could go into the the reasons why by design windows is way less secure. I have done it before but will spare everyone from a lengthy boring conversation.
alienationware-
The market shift is already happening. Apple is now boasting over 24 billion in the bank. Steve jobs not innovative? Have you not looked at how many things Microsoft ripped from OS X in vista? You should take a peek. Also, yes SirKenin is right when he is talking about web based. Adobe already patented a web based version of photoshop which will be free. You log onto their web server, upload a photo, edit it, do your work on it, save it, done. All via your web browser. Its already in the works. Also, as for laptop sales Apple beat a lot of PC manufacturers in 2007 for total sales and had the largest % of market growth
http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2007/10/23/apple-rebounding-it-is-for-real/
Apple is not with out fault, and no OS is perfect. However, after working with mainly PC/Windows/Novell/Microsoft networks for the past 7 to 8 years and now running pretty much a strictly Mac network you can easily see the differences. Easier to manage, more secure by design (via Unix).
The only thing that people can't quite compete with yet is AD/Exchange environments because of the hassle you have to go through to migrate from one existing platform to another. Once someone figures that out, be it Apple, Novell (with their SuSe product), or some other Unix/Linux distro you will see more of a market shift. Xserves are already cheaper or as cheap than most PC servers and out perform them in pure data through put, and you don't have to run OS X on them. Apple's Xserves are certified to run OS X, Unix, Linux and Windows server OSes. Anything you can do in the back end is up to your IT department because it will most likely not really effect the end users.
Also, for innovation I am sure that the new version of Windows server copies from Leopard server and adds things like a built in wiki, netboot clients (actually I know it already has that, with WDS, saw a demo of it at some vista training), Server side indexing (spotlight), stackable calendars (I can't believe apple was the first dev to do this), multimedia streaming (pod casting server), etc.
You can't sit there and say Apple is not innovative, look at the iphone and the ipod, they have taken over those markets already. I mean look at what they did to Unix. They took a fairly complex OS, and made it so easy to use that anyone can pick it up and use it with out knowing unix. The end user will never have to touch a command line or compile a package, or do any of that at all. Everything as a GUI front end. Their OS is easily just as powerful as Vista if not more so, and takes up a ton of less system resources to run.
