This article is a solid block of FUD. It reminds me of the arguments made by IT industry types against Windows 3.1, fancy fonts and graphical user interfaces i

This article is a solid block of FUD. It reminds me of the arguments made by IT industry types against Windows 3.1, fancy fonts and graphical user interfaces in the early 1990s. For me desktop Linux happened about five years ago. The main reason why it doesn't have much market share is simple: Windows is still shipped by default on nearly all new PCs. However, if Canonical does a decent job with its software store I think things could change quite rapidly and they could be in a similar position to do deals with box shifters as Microsoft has traditionally been.