Thou dost protest too much? I fail to see where you're being shouted down by anyone more angry than you are. My comment above is not all black and white, I was simply pointing out that development on the Windows base can be seen from a different perspective than the one you seemed to be offering.

I don't belong to any tribe, I'm just a basic user who doesn't need the specialist stuff you're familiar with. I use both OS and M$ software. OS may well have failed to take sufficient market share. I find that regrettable, because I'm not happy with M$.

So You're either in it, as a card carrying evangelist and paid up member, or you're outside it, as one of the evil hordes who want to see MS stamping its jackboot on the face of users forever feels to me, you know, irrelevant and, frankly, way overstated.