After reading many of these comments, I have gleaned the following reasons why many still run Windows:
My friends run it.
My boss makes me run it.
Drivers.
Games.
MS specific programs not available on Linux.

Pretty much what it's always been.

Last time I checked, TA worked pretty good in Wine.

I'd mod this comment up. Though I might nitpick the spelling. :)

>> 4,143,077 Texans live in poverty. 1,655,085 of them are children. http://www.census.gov/

The other some odd 2,487,922 are paying Texas traffic ticket SURCHARGES.

Seems kinda scary! All these mussels emitting Dihydrogen Monoxide - we all know how dangerous that is.

Why not take some of that steam generated by the primary and run a failsafe turbine that doesn't generate electricity. It should just run pumps to keep the secondary cooling system running in the event of electrical failure. This way, even if the system has been flooded, cooling continues AND the hotter the primary gets, the faster the turbine will turn and the more cooling should be effected.

Well, here we have two opposing views of programming. On the one hand, we've got the Systems style programmer who can bootstrap a machine using binary digit displays and toggle switches. On the other hand we've got a Scriptor who uses canned programming.

There are pros and cons to both approaches:
The Systems programmer will take longer to do the job, assuredly. But, when he's done, the result will be tight fast efficient code that will get the job done in a fraction of the time a script could.
The Scriptor can probably hack together something that will get the job done but will not scale well. You'll need a supercomputer/Beowulf cluster to handle the load.

My opinion is: Use the scripting languages to prototype and make the final product a compilation like C/C++/PASCAL etc...

C++ is Object Oriented and it is also compiled. Best of both worlds.

The basics; isn't that what PASCAL is for?

I think IT and Help Desk people should:
      work in the basement.
      all have personalized coffee mugs.
      and have english accents.

No one expects the INQUISITION!