Linux is continuously widespread software all over.
Previously, China-Korea-Japan are declare the cooperatative project to develop linux became the new OS for replace Windows.
Is this the victory of opensource over Microsoft?

I agree,Thanapan.I've been hearing the phrase "This is the year of the Linux desktop" for 10 years. For me, it's been
a true statement for each of those years, because GNU/Linux has been my primary desktop operating
system since 1997. But for most people around the world, this is the year of the the Windows desktop,
same as it was last year and the year before. But if we each spent one day tell

Not only that. PC World are rated Vista is No.1 hopelessness product in 2007. Sure,It slow and unstable. Who wanna be there? ^^

The interesting question has to be "How would MS deal with serious interest in Linux by its OEMs?" Up to now, that has not even been a concern since Desktop Linux still is not at a point where it is viable in the mass market. But one has to wonder what happens when that threshold is inevitably crossed. Of course MS could try to penalize those OEMs who transgress, but that would run afoul of the DOJ. Of course another option for them would be to develop some sort of "premium" Windows OS product that would ONLY run on their own hardware, yet would compete at a price point that would ravage the OEM market in a move similar to what IBM tried and failed to do with MicroChannel. Then, of course, there is also the IP lawsuit route, but that would bring its own set of risks. In any case, one would expect some sort of market response from a company like MS in the case that Desktop Linux were to ever start flourishing in the mass market. Many interesting possibilities.