Re:The reason why everyone uses Microsoft.... (Score 1)

The 'I need Windows to run $application' argument doesn't stand anymore, imho. Not since we have VirtualBox (as 'easy to use' as Ubuntu) out in the open and virtualisation support has been officially added to the kernel. And yes, it runs very smoothly even on my crappy (1.5GHz, 512MB RAM, onboard Intel Graphics) laptop! Almost any Windows program can be downloaded, installed and used in Virtualbox (except graphically intense games, obviously ... the emulation isn't that good yet). You can share files directly between Windows and Linux without rebooting. You get the best of both worlds at the same time!