personally i love microsoft for the simple fact that it's easy. I get paid to sit on my ass and occasionaly reboot some machines! I do use linux on one of my home machines, and it is definatly cool. Took me a while to get linux to read my windows drive, but after doing that i felt like I accomplished something, unlike windows where everything is done for you, or you just click through. Linux is definatly a learning experiance. Windows is for lazy people who dont care to learn about computers to use them.