LeadSled says: 
"Linux can host the game as server but cannot run them on the client side. Can you remember when we had a choice to run either OpenGL or Linux, its been a long time."

Excuse me? Id Software has been doing OpenGL games since Quake 1. Even the games today, running the Doom 3 engine (now called id Tech 4) are OpenGL. 

How do you think they can get it to run on Macs and Linux boxes? ie: Multiplatform.

You can't remember when? Were you drunk or high? It was last month with Enemy Territory: Quake Wars...For Linux! 

Even the next generation, id Tech 5 engine is, again OpenGL. 

If you think OpenGL is dead for games, take a look at what the Playstation 3 uses. Its certainly NOT DirectX!

I suggest you go to www.phoronix.com and actually look in the "Linux Gaming" section, where they have benchmarks to compare Nvidia and ATI cards under Quake Wars.

OpenGL may not be widely adopted as DirectX for games, but that doesn't mean its dead.

If you pay an analyst enough, they can make any product of yours sound great!

Its funny how the same report titled: "How Windows Vista Will Shake Up The State Of The Enterprise Operating System" (from the same author, Benjamin Gray), suggests how Linux is becoming a "credible threat to Windows on the desktop”.
=> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2217087,00.asp

So let me get this straight:
=> The Inquirer: MS has 'no competitor worth the name'
But
=> eWeek: Linux is a "credible threat to Windows on the desktop”.

Huh?

You know what I do every time I see a report conducted by IDC, Forrester, or Gartner? I look at who sponsored the study. You'll always find something interesting when you do that. ;)

Microsoft has no competitor? Tell that to Oracle (and the people selling $200 PC's at Wal-mart).

Anyway, I find Ubuntu server to be much better than Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Maybe that's what's holding Linux back, poor distributions. Even Ubuntu seems pretty poor until you figure out how to enable everything they disabled because of licensing issues, like NVIDIA drivers, DVD playback, almost any multimedia playback.

...but even I could have come to the same conclusion. All one has to do is read the tech news to determine this.

Forrester Research has a sharp one, they do.

How many times does such a "news" appear? Forerester is so forward-sighted!

Altho I will agree that one of the main "competitors" to Vista is XP. I once again find myself asking the usual questions..

Are the "analysts" still counting every copy of Vista that has shipped or have they started just counting the active and legitimate copies?

I've got a mate that says the company he works for has purchased a couple hundred PC's All came in with Vista preloaded. He's spent more than a couple 14 hour days removing Vista and loading XP on these systems. 

MS continues to show that they will do anything to "pad" the numbers to keep their market share looking higher than it truly is.

They count EVERY copy of an OS shipped in the numbers regardless if it's ever even been activated or not.

They prove time and again that piracy is their friend by allowing updates to pirated copies of their products. Browser market share starts falling? Well, we'll they just strip the piracy protection stuff off'n IE-7 and give it to the pirates. OS numbers dropping? They start counting the estimated number of pirated copies.

If one of these "analysts would be given the number of systems that are actually legally activated and in use, MS's numbers would NOT be quite so impressive.

And altho Vista continues to improve with each update I still consider it a Beta product that's still not ready for my daily use.

If a company would take a close look at what they use their computers for and load an appropriate OS for that, Vista wouldn't stand a chance. (There would be a LOT more companies running some flavor of Linux) But since MS basically "gives" the OS to them (While charging the rest of us an arm and leg) well................

On another note... MS has shown they can "push" updates to a system that has auto updates turned off... Looks like a pretty good sized "back door" to the OS that's just begging for someone with malicious intentions to exploit.

I'll start believing the market share hype when MS starts reporting accurate numbers. (And stops actively supporting the pirates)

Bit sad how commenters seem to think hard real data is equal in value to popular perception.
To get the raw data from a large sample of companies gives us the REAL story and not some 'impression' or 'feeling'.
And to sensible people the difference matters.

MICROSOFT HAS HOME DESKTOP ONLY & LOTs OF TELCOM & SERVER FARM PROVIDERs? well at least intel does. NOT COMMERICAL,
thomas von drashek

Games are the driving force behind many of of our choices. AMD made huge gains with the Athlon 64 because is could run graphics/games 30%+ faster then the P4's. Windows has made gains because it took over the gaming world with DirectX. "Game for Windows" is on every new game box. When was the last time you saw a OpenGL game. Linux can host the game as server but cannot run them on the client side. Can you remember when we had a choice to run either OpenGL or Linux, its been a long time. They always ran faster in Linux. If DirectX was just and another developer tool and not part of Windows, you would not be seeing Linux dieing a slow death as far a desktops are concerned. I would switch back in a blick of a eye and I know may others would aswell because they would run faster and we all know how important and few FPS (frames per second) are these days. Just need to lok at the war between ATI(AMD) and Nvidia is. Gamers have much more power then most would like to admit.

MS's problem can be summed as such in the title. They keep trying to hit a homerun and steal headlines.

Free business consulting advice to MS:
Offer XP upgrade CDs every 6-12 mos. for a $10 fee (including shipping). Just roll all the patches into the software and sell an upgrade CD every 6-12 mos. 

That's one of the reasons I LOVED Autopatcher (now dead) and like Linux. A new disto every 6-12 mos means that I don't have to spend hours upgrading - and YES, there'd be people willing to pay for it - if you could keep it off the BT sites.