[PatrioticAmerican]

I get a kick out of the Linux crowd, which thinks that a single product, Linux, and only an OS at that, trumps everything Microsoft does, which is 200 products in 50 languages.

[chilepepper]

Linux runs in a large number of languages, Turkish, Siamese, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Finnish, two flavors of Portugese, Ukrainian, even ESPERANTO

Even the spelling checker runs in a fairly large number, perhaps not 50 languages but close enough...

The reason the OS is so important is that everything else hinges on it.

If Microsoft has a neat application, then they should port it to Linux to see what that does to the their OS market share :) hint -- it will drop since normal folks (as M$ fans are always quick to point out) don't really care what runs under the hood. If they can get a good application to run on a free OS, great. Of course they care that is costs $100 dollars to get the latest version...or that installing the latest version might immediately make obsolete all the software titles they've been painstakingly accumulating for the past 5 years...

[Bush2000]

I get a kick out of the Linux crowd, which thinks that a single product, Linux, and only an OS at that, trumps everything Microsoft does, which is 200 products in 50 languages.

It's pretty sad, isn't it?