“FAR from being dead, Unix-style technologies are on a course to
trounce Windows, or at the very least, offer some long overdue,
good old-fashioned competition…”
“The best friend Linux ever had was Microsoft,” McAllister
said. “Microsoft forces people to build to a standard. Microsoft
isn’t going to slit its throat by changing its hardware standard
overnight…”
“McAllister estimates about 20 million machines are running
Linux (“seats”). He expects this to rise, so that within three
years there will be as many Linux PCs as those with Windows.”