I think that now that Microsoft puts more protection on their operating systems, i.e. Windows activations, people turn away from it. Microsoft has always allowed people to install previous OSes to be install on 1,00,000,000 systems with the same serial and disk if you wanted to. There was no way to stop it. However, this lead to MS taking over the computing world and making windows based OSes the most popular in the world. Now that it is harder to pirate, though not even close to impossible, so you think it will lead to their down fall? Now that people have to bypass activation in order to pirate software and such, I think more and more people are going to turn away from Windows based OSes. Do you?