Very wrong aswer though. Microsoft's NT OS line runs on multiple architectures. Apple's 68k to PPC transition was a disaster. They fixed it later, but the first gen PPC was near unworkable. I loved Apple's Mac line before that, but this made me switch.
68k to PPC transition really wasn’t a disaster. Was these a year or two when certain apps (Photoshop was a big one) we’re not updated for PPC, and this ran about the same or slightly slower on a PPC Mac as compared to a 2 year old Quadra? Sure. But clock speeds advanced quick enough and Adobe finally got their native apps working and things were pretty good by year 2 of the transition.
I had one of those first gen PPC Macs, Having spend big on a new machine and have everything run much slower than on your old machine, and that in a time where unlike today we did not have performance to spare, was a real turnoff.
It got abetter eventually, but by then 1st gen was already replaced, and you had to buy the next version of the software as well if eventually a PPC native version came available. Office software in those days was also much more expensive than today.
At the same time Microsoft released Windows 95, arguably the first Windows with a usable GUI. The PPC switch was a disaster for Apple, no doubt about it.
