oh dear. I'd have to suggest here that you're projecting your own use cases and assuming that they have a universality that they really don't. Desktop producti

oh dear. I'd have to suggest here that you're projecting your own use cases and assuming that they have a universality that they really don't. Desktop productivity tools are history... no, no they're not, MS office sells millions of copies for a reason. Windows mail clients are wrong. They're not the same as unix mail clients for sure, but who gets to dictate whether that's right or wrong? Personally I think all mail clients that allow HTML are wrong, but I understand that I'm in a minority there. I'd suggest that Windows has many advantages over linux on the desktop. The hardware support is better, there's a better range of desktop apps available for people who like desktop apps (including games of course). Personally I'm looking forward to ubuntu on windows. there's a load of areas where I prefer working in a linux/unix like environment (e.g. anything command-line based where linux is far superior to Windows (although Windows is getting better in that regard)), and I hope that this will let me get the best of both worlds, whilst avoiding the overhead of running a VM.