I have to admit that I am partly agree with you. MS screwed up with Vista and all its competitors had a chance to gain part of its market. I speak about both Linux and MacOS. But none of them used it. So basically situation is the same as it was before Vista. In fact we are not loosing ground because we never had it. Slightly over 1% of desktop market makes me think that Linux is still OS for the geeks. I also have to admit that there are no tech innovations in windows 7 which could encourage me to go back to MS technology. At the same time I really see a lot of them in linux.