well i guess mac has a growing leagion of fan-kiddies

If m$ want to keep a better marketshare maybe they sohuld make windows slightly less rediculously priced, $50 bucks sounds like a good price to me

hey linux has almost broken 1%, maybe next year

No doubt it's certainly related to the state of economy we're in. Give it some time, I'm sure when business rebounds, it will grow back. And I agree, if they can price Windows 7 at a very attractive price, it will have a side effect of adding to the economy.

some things Linux should do but will never happen:

-pick a single GUI desktop like KDE or Gnome.
-we don't need 1000 distros to do the same thing in a broken fashion, we need a few distros to do things stable and well. better yet, just make Fedora or Ubuntu the new standard base.
-now that compiz is f_cked, maybe there needs to be a formal rewrite for all distros in how it handles graphics. Something like directX is needed and should be merged/managed byXorg.
-same thing with audio, just make pulseaudio the new audio standard and break compatibility with old software that used the older Alsa.
-actually adhere to linux standards base
-actually make software worthy of moving over from Windows. Why move if the application on Linux has less functionality and is uglier
-actually use better sounding names instead of Gimp, Amarok, Kthisapplication, GNUthatapplication, GTKthis
-cut down on the number of media players out there,, pick one and make it like firefox where you can add features as plugins and change the look via themes.
-Maybe fix the browser fonts so when a windows user tries Linux it won't look like sh_t
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those 3 OSes are not substitute for each other, thus these statistics are pointless

depends how you look at it really, depending on your computing needs then they can all be substitutes for eachother