@Squiliam: You were just saying the thing i was pointing out; people stick to what's familiar for them. But as for web duties, there's really no standards that would "force" you to use M$ standards, but M$ would like there to be.
As for your Linux points:
1. They can't bully HP due to authorities, but they can bully Asus despite of authorities?
2. For work, you are right mostly for the tech support personnel (btw, IBM offers Linux tech support, as do Micro$oft too), but for a standard office user, not really, since the office programs on Linux based operating systems tend to be compatible with M$ Office, and a number of office programs, that are not M$ programs, are used practically everywhere.
For home user, outside the possible lack of driver support, for example Ubuntu is a lot easier to work with and faster to learn for the basic functionalities needed to use it. Basically the biggest differencies are that you don't go to Google to search a program you need, you open Synaptic, enter your password and search your program there and it's installed automatically. And another major difference is, that you don't browse the drives as "C" or "D" etc., and lastly, when you need to change settings on your computer, you don't need to browse the computer "control panel->internet settings->local area network->wireless connections->" or "program files->xxx->xxx->xxx", nearly all of the needed stuff is on a menu a little similar to Windows "Start" menu.
When i installed my first Ubuntu, i had a hardware that worked "out of the box" with it and never had any problems with Ubuntu on that hardware and everything worked better than they did with XP (i even got flash working). Of course, this isn't the case with all hardware, but still, propably the biggest reason for low Linux OS market share is low OEM adoption (of course, this doesn't mean that Linux would suddenly raise being dominant on the market).
@786_ali: Their edge is their market dominance. They aren't very good in competing if the competition has to be done with something else than money.
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