I think a lot of people would say Microsoft had the better quarter, considering Microsoft earned a $13.7 billion profit and Apple earned a $1.21 billion profit.
By the way, your use of the Apple ticker symbol made me curious, so I checked AAPL vs MSFT on Google Finance. I am amazed that APPL has 2/3 the market cap of MSFT but only 1/10th the profit.
I can't compare Mac & Vista but I know that the 8 year pld XP is better than Vista. I'm happy with Ubuntu GNU/Linux though.