I hate MS, but...
As is acknowledged towards the end of the quote, The first sentence is only true if almost all non-Microsoft products are ignored.
And when did Intel-compatible become an issue? MS holds a far higher share of the AMD-compatible OS market than the Intel-compatible OS market, because Apple don't make an AMD-compatible OS!
Consider the following:

Ford possesses a dominant, persistent, and increasing share of the world- wide market for Shell-compatible vehicles. Every year for the last decade, Ford's share of the market for Shell-compatible vehicles has stood above ninety percent. For the last couple of years the figure has been at least ninety-five percent, and analysts project that the share will climb even higher over the next few years. Even if Porsche's vehicles were included in the relevant market, Ford's share would still stand well above eighty percent.

Only true if we ignore all other vehicles, but so what?

We can take the car analogy further by considering radios.
OMG!!! Citroen bundles a non-standard radio with their vehicle! We must sue them into oblivion and force them to unbundle their radio and sell cars without radios, or with a selection of several.

Gmail Offline FTW!

I couldn't care less about the source code of services such as Gmail, so long as I have the data.


I think of RMS in the same light as extremist Muslims. I have nothing against Muslims and I'm a big fan of Free software, but extremists are extremists and are just pushing their point too far.
I feel no need to restrict my software usage to what fits RMS's ideals or anyone else's. I have the freedom to use the software I choose to use, be it GPL or no.

Better to make heavy use of the spam option... This tells your email provider that it's spam, so that their spam filters will learn and improve.

But anyway, never click a link in a spam email. Even if the criminals say they'll unsubscribe you if you do. Spammers have a habit of not being entirely scrupulous...
The purpose of the opt out link in a spam email is to tell the spammer that your email address is actively used.
(On a side note, it is also possible for them to detect this automatically when you open the email, if your email client displays images by default. This is why Gmail doesn't display images until you tell it to, unless you whitelist a specific sender.)

Well that too, of course.
And not only do they use the imperial system (we don't actually call it English in England), but they got several of the units in it wrong!

But when will your next pi day be?

I quite agree - and I should like add, too, that there are also more English-speaking countries in the world than the the US.
In fact, would you believe it, English is actually the language of England, where we say "the fourteenth of March two-thousand-and-nine.
Actually, I don't know of a language other than USish where the month comes first, though I'm sure they do exist. (Oh, the poor USish - they don't have their own language or even a word to describe people from their country...)

Yes, I they are. I, for example, use OS X. I don't have a PC. I run Vista and XP using Parallels, and would like to download the 7 beta to use in the same way.
And no, I'm not going to make snarky comments about how slow it is. Not me. I'm one of the ones who doesn't see why everyone else hates Vista so much. As I have said before, I consider it to be the first really good OS Microsoft have produced in a long time. (Ever?). As an IT professional, I much prefer supporting Vista to XP or 2000.
I don't choose to run Windows as my primary OS, but I certainly don't bash Microsoft for producing it.

Limiting their download of it to their own browser, however, is... nasty.

From Microsoft's Windows 7 FAQ :

What web browsers support the Windows 7 Beta download experience?
Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 support the Windows 7 Beta download experience.

Typical MS. Does this inspire confidence in their products for you?

I get the same thing, only with four keys instead of five. Interesting.
BTW, It does still say 2.5 million on the MS website.

I was also unable to download it using Firefox (3.0, OS X). As arabagast said, it just reloads the page and then stops. No amount of reloading helps. When I try from IE8b2 on Vista, it installs an activex control. I then had to reload the page, and then it installed the download manager itself. Then after reloading the page several more times (seven or so) it finally actually started the download. Typical MS. There is no reason whatsoever for the download not to work in ANY browser. Doesn't exactly make me think 7 will be good...

Have you seen the Universal Display website?
One of the Product Concepts is : Sounds like an expensive newspaper!