Too late? Funny, in the latest generation Nintendo killed Microsoft and in world wide sales, the XBox 360 is slightly ahead of the PS3. How much money has Microsoft lost on video games? I hear is in the billions.

Yeah, Regan's tax cuts brought in so much money the national debt went through the roof. Wait...that does not sound right. Regan's policies were a complete failure.

Maybe because there is no evidence to support it being defective?

so you are saying Apple should port their XCode development environment to whatever OS you want? Cool sign me up. Apple, port xCode to the OS which ran the Atari 2600!

Your statement is the dumb one. What are you even talking about? Your statements have zero relation to what is being discussed in this thread.

huge sales? LOL. what did they sell like 100,000 to all the microsoft employees? Zune HD is terrible and no one is buying them because of it.

Too bad the interest on the US national debt is not locked in at 2%. So bascially your statement puts you in the same league as the corrupt government of the Republo-crats which has been killing the USA for decades. I am going to tell my mortgage company that rather than pay off my 5% interest mortgage i am going to invest my payments in a bond and get a 2% return. That makes sense in the long run. I wonder what they will say....

I sure am dumb

So you compare installing an OS to running a plugin? I can take a Ubuntu cd and install it faster and with fewer steps than Windows 7. Just did it last weekend. I not only have more software, but better software by default. I do not need to install anti-virus, intrusion detection, anti-spyware software, etc... So yes, installing Ubuntu Linux is easier than Windows 7. My windows desktop refuses to play WoW crashing the second it launches. Guess i need a "driver" or something. And it wont connect to my Router beacause i need to install some "network" driver or something for my motherboard. Funny how the Ubuntu has no such issue with the networking.

Ah a faux news watcher. Where did the OP say "...extra profit is evil..."? "Under socialism..." wow. how did you get to this point?

Wow. So you are saying the number of drivers determines the complexity of the OS? Wow. Just wow.

sure, just like the ss was following orders

$100-$200 per user is super expensive compared to $0 per user. Have 200 employees, just for the exchange licesnse we are talking over $20,000 a year. Not to mention the proprietary x.500 Active Directory, Outlook seats, Windows licenses, Anti-Virus, Intrustion Detection, Spyware detection, etc... Not to mention the other long term costs of being locked into a proprietary Microsoft environment. Vendor lock-in will cost you dearly in the end.

  So, yes that is "super expensive".

And guess which labs do more actual work. Hint it is not the closed, proprietary, patent encumbered, super expensive, proprietary, black box software ones.

I agree, XP is the wrong way to go. Get rid of the super expensive Windows environment and move to GNU/Linux. Free yourself from the Microsoft lock-in and save a boatload of money.