Kind of on the same riff as the article, it seems like tighter integration between virtual machines and the desktop environment could be another place where the

Kind of on the same riff as the article, it seems like tighter integration between virtual machines and the desktop environment could be another place where the Linux desktop could enjoy an advantage. This is an area that we're unlikely to see Microsoft or Apple touch, as it's so developer-centric. It's not hard to imagine what something like this might look like. QubesOS[0] is doing interesting things in this space, although their concentration is clearly on security and security researchers rather than developers (and definitely not the average end-user). [0]: http://qubes-os.org/trac http://qubes-os.org/trac