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He had the vision to see what was to come, got there first,made,bought,stoled,depending on ones point of view,a great product,and now he owns the market.

True. And you are not going to compete with him just by making your operating system behave the opposite of his. People have come to expect their computers to operate the way he laid down. If you try to be non-Microsoft for the sake of being non-Microsoft, you users will get frustrated. Even if your idea of how it should work is better, its still frustrating as hell for the average non-geek user.

Put your scroll bar on the opposite side of applications and have it work slightly different? It will drive people nuts, or at least drive off many potential adopters. Its good to do things better, but familiar is better to most.

I hope Linux can compete in the home market, because competition is good. But Linux will really have to go on a major user-friendliness kick, and de-geekify a bit, to ever have a real shot.

I always get a kick out of the animated little logo in the top right of I.E.

I can just see Gates and the Microsoft "geeks" giggling as they designed it;

"The world revolves around Microsoft."