Well again, if M$ really thinks it's a good idea to put every programmer out of a job who doesn't work for them, they can go right agead. M$ can sit on high and do all the work to write great windows apps with no competition (which they've already demonstrated they won't do), meanwhile every other programmer in the world will be competing to come up with something better. If Bill wants to practice total technological facism (I say "total" because he's already started down the road), he'll be forcing the rest of us to engage in technological capitalism which I have no doubt will build the better product. You can argue the Linux is the better product now, but it does lag behind in some key areas. MS Office is a great product that works very well and it'll have to be defeated. Linux isn't as user-friendly as windows, though it's comming close. If Bill forces our hand though, imagine what we'll do!