I doubt it. Although IE has it's issues, Chrome has some real show stoppers and then there's the fact it phones home with shedloads of data about your browsing.

But it's not a different market, is it? Microsoft are a software company. Antivirus products are software. It's a different sector of the same market.

In the light of all the above being available, plenty of people still pay for anti-virus software. I do. I use Esets NOD32 and will continue to.

Microsoft offer Windows Defender yet people still prefer to use Spybot S&D et al in their droves thus proving that just because MS offer something for free in a sector, it doesn't automatically follow that people will go for it.

..once you've edited the channels.conf file for DVB-T (because there's only a handful of transmitters included in the package) which requires you to know a lot of not easy to find information on MUX frequencies, what mode each MUX is transmitting in, channel spacing, offsets, error correction rates, channel bitrates etc for the particular transmitter you're using.

It's really simple, fire it up, follow the prompts to set up your TV. DVB-T is really simple. You put in your postcode, it gives you a list of possible transmitters in your region, you select the one you receive and then it goes off and scans the channels. Once it's done that, it connects to the internet and downloads a full EPG that spans 14 days AFAIR. Job done.

The whole thing is such a PITA to set up and keep going without something or other packing up (usually the programme guide) that it makes it worthwhile paying £60 for Windows MCE just to save your sanity.

I don't actually think that a lot of people using OSS actually realise this. I get the impression that the recent comers to Ubuntu for example, have an image in their mind of teams of people working on the software and that if you told them it was one bloke doing a bit of coding on something he fancied having a go at every now and again after work, they'd call you a liar.

As you said, many projects are basically things people are writing for themselves and have put out in the wild as a "Well it's useful for me, I'll stick it up on the interweb in case anyone else finds it useful for them"

How well does it start when your internet access isn't available?