No, for 2 more years. And it'll support IE6 for 2 more years.

At least you have Netflix in the UK, can't say that about Poland.

Except Adobe's already abandoned Flash in Linux, there will only be security fixes during next 5 years and a Chrome implementation. I expect Flash experience to derail in the next couple of years when players start demanding newer Flash version. It will be Chrome's Flash or nothing. I hope the plugin will be useless by then.

Could you elaborate more on that?

As long as it's possible, I'm fine with it. (I mean, if you don't have to pay $99/year just to have it unlocked...)

Maybe I should write "inconsistent" instead of "buggy". I've experienced all different f***-ups with GNOME 2 and now Unity (I know, I'm asking for it, but GNOME 2 wasn't awe-some, too). I could write a really long rant about all these design & implementation problems but it would be so off-topic I'm going to stop now.

As for support, sadly, I still encounter various Silverlight content on the web, Flash is being phased-out on Linux, AIR already has been - not really important for server usage, but for desktop it's being inconvenient sometimes.

I meant difficult not as in "difficult to implement" but difficult to fit into their whole OS ecosystem. Apple would have to shut down their server flavor, they would have to ditch terminal completely, they'd disable PHP, Apache, X11. They would have to make their OS incompatible with any programming environments as Python, Perl, revision control systems... Finder probably would have to go away (or just be re-implemented so that it can't go into unprotected territories). Their root handling would have to be reimplemented (too easy to hack), etc. It CAN be done but it I doubt they would just ditch it all just in one second (that's why I wrote about 5-6 years which gives about 2 OS X versions; still too small but I'm being cautious). But I may be biased, I have personal interest to believe what I say. ;) Linux GUIs are buggy and I wouldn't like to have to go back.

I don't believe in a complete iOS-ization, at least not for the rest 5-6 years... It would be really difficult to reliably block terminal access which - by definition - bypasses all of Apple's measures like Gatekeeper etc. And for what purpose? It's not that an average Joe is going to play with the terminal anyway, it doesn't harm Apple's business IMO. At least I hope I'm right, it would be sad to have to go back to Linux just after switching to a Mac...

It is now renamed to Firefox Sync and supported officially by Mozilla. AFAIK it will be integrated into Firefox 4. So I assume it's a good moment to switch from Xmarks. :) (of course if one doesn't need inter-browser syncing)

iTunes has a lot more than 50% of digital music sales market. So yes, Apple is close to be a monopoly in some areas.

I would be careful with this one, especially when talking about Atom. (come on, my P8600 Core2 Duo can't handle Flash HD YouTube video!)

In my country (Poland) Opera has as much as 7% of the market; this IS something. Of course I agree they don't do as well worldwide.