Windows virii might help Linux (Score 1)

How do you stop non-techies from going "Oh, somebody loves me! I'll just read this message... OHNOS MY HARDDRIVE!"?

I'm guessing that in the future Windows virii could be a reason for companies to consider making the switch to Linux, especially in areas such as general office work/internet workstations. OpenOffice, KDE and Mozilla have evolved to a point where this would be possible.

Unfortunately, this is highly unlikely in engineering/graphics departments and will take slightly more work. To use an example, at AMD, we have a lot of internal custom code based on VC++, MASM, SwiftForth and Topspeed C++/Clarion. Porting these applications over to Linux would take more time than it would be worth, so the engineering department is quite literally stuck with Windows 98/2000.