Yes but look at the numbers there

c) 20-25% of web servers run UNIX - thats the same as IIS does
d) 5 - 10% of desktop pcs run OSX

that would mean that M$ would have 75 - 95% domination...

OK thank you for the details there.

Look I am not anti-vista. I would never install it. I stick with XP if I 'HAVE' to use Windows.

Microsoft employees A LOT of people and therefore feeds a lot...

WINE is an API translator of sorts.

When a program wants to say, 'Open a New Window' instead of calling the real win32 windowopen function WINE translates that into a GNOME or KDE window instead....

VIsta was built from SCRATCH you say? You mean from ZERO code to VISTA you say?

No... you are are wrong. Where is your proof? Vista is essentially NT 5.2

Maybe NT was stable as one point but...

The difference between you and me are probably pretty great.

1 - I worked at M$ on the Vista Firewall From June 2005 - June 2006 I found many security holes in the fire wall.. which I reported as...

exactly... Linspire is trying to work with Ubuntu ( trying to take Ubuntu's technologies ) and selling them as addons to their customers... ubuntu gives all those features and software for free (...

TheNNS: You say that they attack the largest OS not Bill himself... if you read my post that is ultimately what I meant... and I compounded that remark with the 50/50 market share... but you have to...

Well folks in the end all distros help each other out in the end.. since it is all community sharable code and ideas.

Ubuntu took debian and knnoppix ( live CD ) to start with which allows Ubuntu...

Ubuntu is based off Debian meaning it uses APT-GET as it's package manager for one thing.

Second, Debian is the #1 distro that is 100% NON-Coorerate... unlike RedHat, SuSE and others Debian is...

Windows is full of viruses because all hackers hate Bill Gates and love to attack the BIG GUY. Microsoft did NOT write their code based on security... security came AFTERWARDS and was more like a...

In general it is not a good idea to require the use of the 'back button' when navigating anything in your WEB app.

I suggest you always supply good 'flow navigation' by letting the user choose...