Last year, President Olafur Grimsson of Iceland quietly joined the campaign for the creation of an Icelandic version of Windows. Unfortunately, Microsoft did not find the head of state's argument convincing enough to translate the operating system, even after persistent Icelanders volunteered to pay for the Icelandic language translation out of the country's budget. No go for Microsoft. Macs, on the contrary, are popular in Iceland. Why?

"Thanks to good marketing, it's doing better than in many other countries," Kristinn Ingi Petursson, a graphic designer at Asperent, told MacDirectory. "I think Switzerland is the only country that uses the Mac more than us. The thing that lifted up Macs in Iceland is that MacOS has always been translated to Icelandic, and many people buy Mac because of that. Somehow those translated versions of Mac OS are buggy and impossible to update without special Icelandic updates that are not available as soon as the English updates. Only once was the MS Windows translated to Icelandic, It was Win98 second edition, and man, what a BUG!"