Notice: typical pro-MS piece - not one mention of Linux or Mac OS X.
Lotus and word perfect made the apple personal computer the envy of microslop... windows was the result...
The APPLICATIONS were what sold the computer... not the performance specs per se.
The open sourcers will eventually take massive market share away from ms... barring government intervention... or perhaps Willie G will assert HE invented the concept of word processing... and page layout, or accounting with a spreadsheet... et al.
If the freebie unix clones survive the attacks by the Justice Department in their support of the microslop hegemony... there will be no microslop as we know it five years from now.
If the power is ultimately given to the people, will that power corrupt them absolutely??? Look for government to license and register all computers, like cars and guns over the next few years... "WE just have to register these dangerous computer platforms on an individual basis... how else can we protect the people from terrorists1!?!"
I say give em the power anyhow.