Diversity Breeds Diversity (Score 1)

Just a credible threat to Microsoft will help bust open the rest of the corporate and private network installations to Apple. Why? Because, Microsoft has bred intolerance to diversity into it's very core so that everyone believes that sameness in the OS is a "good thing". Of course, all that's really needed are compatible data types. Linux will help force that data-level compliance and I would bet that Microsoft will resist complying longer than Apple. Bad for Microsoft, good for alternative platforms.