[atomicpossum]

Make sure it's supported well and they've got a shot.

I'd like to see Microsoft become a lot less dominant,

[cbkaty]

I'd like to see Microsoft become a lot less dominant,

Bill Gates, the billionaire socialist that opposes any repeal of the death tax, will eventually be put in his place....of course he is not faced with losing the family farm...he can stand to lose $500,000,000 in estate taxes...

[starbase]

Make sure it's supported well and they've got a shot.

I'd like to see Microsoft become a lot less dominant,

I agree, on both points, I never felt that strongly about Microsoft, but I guess the day is coming where we just get sick of them. Railroading so many companies out of business (with "Embrace, Extend, and Exterminate") then flooding our IT business sector with foreign workers from India (use Americans!!), then the never ending buggy, security train wreck that is their software, and perhaps most insulting of all, the "forced" upgrades where they just tell us what we'll be buying and in what combinations (older stuff no longer supported, buy the new, and screw you).

Yes I'm running a little rebuild computer now from our local tech-rebels, it has all this free open source software on it that is very serviceable like Open Office (same functionality as Microsoft Office, spread sheet, word processor, presentation, etc.), an open source virus shield (which has already caught a couple viruses), and an open source Spybot program that removes spy ware (it too has caught intruders). And all of the packages check for new updates everyday.

I think we don't need Microsoft anymore.

[DesScorp]

I'm a Linux user and advocate, and desktop Linux will not take off big until business standardizes an interface. In short, when businesses decides on a common GUI to use, that's when you'll start seeing it in the business desktop. I'd like that to be KDE (and so would Linus Torvalds), but the purists keep pushing GNOME.

When businesses buy software, they want to train their people on it, and that becomes impossible with different graphical interfaces.