stowe boyd comments on the "re-grooving" and future of microsoft in this get real blog-entry. i felt compelled to comment on it.

my knowledge/experience is limited to the (large) enterprise space, where i don't see any real change to the momentum and dominance of ms windows and office system. the cost to change platform is simply too risky, too expensive and there is no system out there that offers the same capabilities and value. why migrate to something that is capable, more costly to administrate/maintain and has an unclear product roadmap?

hontestly, i can fully understand that a single home user may consider e.g. an apple machine, especially if he/she is heavy on photoshopping for his digital photography anddigging his/her music via ipod/itunes. but then you have the whole switching to the intel-chip platform thingy... forget about linux on the desktop for the average user unless you are a heavy enthusiast wanting to be your own 24/7 support. anyone tried running photoshop and your epson printer on a linux? good luck.