From: "Geo." 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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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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