Apple more closed than Microsoft
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but on the other hand, from a coder's point of view, i wish Microsoft would include the GNU toolchain as well as the Unix scripting environment, e.g. bash/Ruby/Python/Perl, just like XCode does. trying to convert Visual C++ to run on Unix-like systems can be quite difficult.
i also like the idea that MPI is built into Mac OS X as well as associated math libraries for FFTs, BLAS, LAPACK... out of the box. i *think* i can get that same out of the box experience from Microsoft, if i have Windows Compute Cluster Server (which apparently isn't free) which will mean having to install all the stuff myself. Although, Apple may be more closed than Microsoft in certain areas, there are other areas where Microsoft has yet to catch up. Of course, the least closed source systems are Linux-based. i also noticed the Unix core of Mac OS X is open source, and so is the WebKit rendering engine for Safari.