How long until the fall?
The chooks are finally coming home to roost at Micro$oft. Here is a small sample of articles that indicate the groundswell of opinion that is now finally appearing that shows Microsoft is finally being eclipsed in at least the mindset of the business I.T. world, though certainly not yet being swept off corporate desktops.
ps. On a similar vein, I thought this report, Lenovo Linux-Powered ThinkPad in Action, was worthwhile for anyone looking to buy a computer. I have been back using mainly desktops for years now, as I did not need the portability laptops and notebooks. However lately there seem to be many notebooks that offer excellent functionality at comparatively little premium. So as long as they do not suffer any hardware component failure once your warranty runs out (and IBM/Lenovo, and Toshibas too for that matter, are known to be robust), they are becoming serious contenders as total desktop computer replacements.
pps: Corporate clowns: Is the penny dropping? you don't have to buy/use Windows any more in many cases. And for those odd Windows applications that you think you really really cannot do without, your Linux machine can now run them within a Windows virtual machine.
