“With companies and individuals everywhere failing to find the
wow in Windows Vista, Apple’s OS X riding iPod sales and snarky
commercials to steady growth, and long-time Microsoft partner Dell
announcing plans to market a Linux desktop to the mainstream, it
seems certain that the days of Microsoft’s desktop monopoly are
numbered.“Granted, that number is probably a large one, but as evidenced
by eWEEK Labs’ tests of Ubuntu Linux 7.04, the state of the Linux
desktop–not to mention that of other Windows alternatives–is too
strong to hold off heterogeneity forever…”