Might not be a good year to buy a windows desktop maybe folks should give Linux a spin ;)
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
Most people capable of using Linux as their primary O/S have already given it a spin, and the result is Linux use is dropping according to both w3schools and net applications web stats.