This is not 'news'. The fact is that people hate Microsoft products and have done for many years. They need to use them purely because of compatibility issues, so that your documents can be read by your 'colleague in accounting', and that you have a driver for your peripherals (which are commonly only supplied for Windows). Companies hate spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on Microsoft licenses and do not want to. There is no alternative however: The problem with Linux is that is has been too complicated for anybody other than a computer scientist to understand. It is however free, will continue to be free, and there are literally thousands of free software products for it (including a full whack version of Office - OpenOffice.org) that don't cost a penny. Now that the Linux powers (RedHat & Debian) are beginning to make Linux more user-friendly, the hardware powers (IBM, HP, Dell) are beginning to make money from Linux powered machine sales, and other hardware manufacturers are bothering to make Linux drivers for their hardware, you'll see a very quick transtition to the Linux platform across all spectrums because there is an incentive to do so. As soon as the software people want to run is there on Linux and takes as little effort to install and use as it does on Windows, people will switch - guaranteed.