From: "Geo." 

Just to give a better example. At the airport most people will still fly if
they make you take your shoes off but when they start telling you to remove
your pants then air travel will suffer a huge user loss.

Geo.

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>>>The real observation:  MS as a desktop platform will continue to be the
> prime desktop throughout computing for decades to come.
>
> I think you are wrong. I think when you hit a certain level of
> invasiveness which microsoft has most certainly hit with vista and office
> 2007 and all this requiring online connections or the stuff shuts down, I
> think you reach a point where the public says enough is enough and from
> there on out the downhill slide does nothing but accelerate.
>
> Geo.

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