>What were you going to buy computer-wise in 2001? A desktop or laptop that came with Microsoft Windows whether you wanted it or not. That was your practical ch

>What were you going to buy computer-wise in 2001? A desktop or laptop that came with Microsoft Windows whether you wanted it or not. That was your practical choice, and the courts found that though it was fine for Microsoft to own the OS market, it was not fine to leverage that into driving Netscape out of business. And this year, I bought a laptop and found out that routine BIOS updates via UEFI capsule don't work if I've installed Linux. Microsoft still has an OS monopoly to such an extent that OEMs feel fine about failing to support any situation in which you run anything but the bundled Microsoft OS, even at the hardware/firmware level.