John said
> More than once the use of Microsoft software has save my bacon.
This discussion about bashing Microsoft misses the point as I 
see it. What movement there is away from Windows appears to be 
towards Apple and OSX. From a user's point of view OSX is both 
easy to use and beautiful.
English is the current lingua franca of the world. It is neither 
easy to use nor beautiful on most occasions. It just is the 
common denominator. Currently, Windows has that place on the 
desktop. It may well be different some time in the future.
IMHO, it's far more productive to look at best-in-class examples 
than to knock the worst examples. I've never seen a Linux 
desktop to compare with OSX in any of its forms.
Stephen
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