Will Mac and Linux be treated equal to Microsoft Windows?

After reporting the news about Google’s new Lively service being not ready for Apple Mac OS X, an interesting question has come about after looking at comments on this topic.

Do you think Apple Mac and Linux will ever be treated equal to Microsoft Windows?

I do understand that Google has been good at supporting the Mac in the past, but with Google Talk and now Lively not supporting Mac OS, it would be nice to see equal support in the future with new product launches and that’s even if they are in Beta.

We would not expect Google or any other brand to wait until the Mac version was ready before releasing a product, but the Mac has many webmasters and developers using it as the main OS and we all wish for more equal-ness.

The day may come where Mac and Linux are treated as equals to windows, but many of us believe that this day is in the distant future.

Do you believe Linux or Mac OS X will ever be treated equal to the Windows operating system?