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In a Fortune 500 corporation, the choice of applications is largely dictated by the IT department. If the company is Windows-centric, the opportunity to use iWork is virtually nil. It's fine on my personal Mac Pro and iPad, but it's not the type of software I'd use for major documents or presentations.
Every time I think about using Final Cut, I keep backing off because of the price, and the fact that I don't own a Mac laptop or an external Blu-ray drive. Avid and Pinnacle are the apps on my PCs, two of which have internal Blu-ray burners. I own Logic and Digidesign Pro Tools, but here again, I lean toward the latter for its multiplatform support. For image editing, it's all Photoshop or PSP. It's just too hard to switch, and that's the user inertia that Apple has to overcome.
The big deal breaker turns out to be the application which most people are not even aware of. This application is a suite of higher order language compilers and an integrated development environment. Software is a means to an end for me, and not my primary career field. There is no time to become proficient in the tool sets on Unix or Apple based systems. We already have Microsoft Developer Studio and its powerful debugging environment. Fortran - C++ - Java. This is the pièce de résistance.
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