As far as making an active effort to convert, IMO they both lose - whether Vista is "good" or not, there's no compelling reason to upgrade from XP, and Linux is too big of a pain to try to migrate to for marginal if any benefit (for typical home/small business networks, anyway), so why buy anything when there's XP now?
Eventually Vista will "win" by default because a copy will be included on every new PC. Unless someone figures out how to market a Linux distro as the default OS for a major PC manufacturer, MS will continue to control 90+% of the OS market without really having to try.
Exactly;whatever OS is installed on the majority of new computers wins by default.Microsoft knows this.
Windows is standard in the business world and it would take a huge improvement for something else to displace it.
I don't love Microsoft and despise the DRM people as I have multiple computers personal use and see no moral reason why I should have to pay for more than one copy of any song,etc as I can only use one copy at a time.