Might not be BUT there are MANY MANY laws about abuse of monopoly position as MS and Intel have found out many time. If they do not renew the licence I am sure the EU will have a very EXPENSIVE reason for them to renew :)

Are you for real? Linux is a COMPLETE OS, You do not need windows at all on your machine. You think that because it costs MS millions that nobody else can write an OS. *nix (the term for Unix like systems) have been around LONGER than windows. Microsoft even sold a *nix system called xenix many years ago. I used one for years. Most deskop Linux distributions ship with a FULL set of office type apps that can read and write MS files called open office. I am writing this post using Ubuntu Linux running Firefox, no sign of Windows anywhere! If you are stupid enough to pay $100s for Windows + Office then fine. Just realise there are other options that cost NOTHING. WAKE UP :)

Your ryobi chop saw vs another chop saw is a pure garbage statement that just shows you do not understand the problem. Yes any developer can learn a new language, I have worked in many different in my 30years of code writing BUT and this is the big BUT. You are NEVER productive in a large scale project until you have used language X in anger and have made mistakes. No company in todays world can aford to carry dead wood so first choice is a person that knows all the kinks and problems of the language and can program around them. Anybody can do a small website in any framework. Only a dev experienced in a given language can jump into a 500 object backend and be productive. Hope that helps you understand lol