I would be happy to have one less platform to test on, however neither platform I think is good enough to chuck out for the other. Both systems have some great things going for them, both have some issues. I think we should be pushing all browser developers to have better standards compliance. IE has made some great strides towards compliance in the last couple of major releases. It just isn't as hard to get things to look the same and thats nice. There is still much work to be done here. I'd really like to see "Web 3.0", web 2.0 is really more like web web 1.2 used wrong but in a really nice way. I think the browser paradigm is wearing a little thin. We need something that is made to handle stateful applications, not something that is hacked to. »

I love linux, but I can't imagine the nightmare it would be to install it for my mother-in-law that calls every three months because she can't remember how to attach an email. I've been using it since the circa 94-95 yggdrasil distribution and it has come so far, but I still think it could go much further in the realms of usability and consistent user interface design. The availability of third party apps is also a sore point. I'm writing this on a MacBook Pro with OSX because I'm a web developer and I just plain need Adobe Photoshop. I haven't found GIMP particularly usable and it can't always handle photoshop files, especially CS3 files and wine has never really worked for me. The best setup has other than OS X has been Linux and VMWare with a windows install. Other than market share the binary incompatiblity between distributions has to be the biggest roadblock in getting commercial software on linux. I know you can always compile apps from source, if it doesn't scare the hell out of you. Lets assume it does, lets assume you are my mother-in-law that can barely install any app on windows no matter how simple it is. This would mean that you are bound by the apps that your given distribution provides. Sounds like a monopoly to me. Linux touts freedom, but only if you are a gear head. For linux to succeed on the desktop the user interface, software compatibilty and software packaging issues need to be solved. Levi »