Actually, this whole controversy really cracks me up. Various distros of Linux have had the triangles for quite some time...Google has had the desktop search stuff going for a long time, and the sidebar for two or three years, with gadgets. Mozilla's FireFox browser is lightyears ahead of Internet Explorer (as someone said: "IE7, the new 7th generation browser in a world of 8th generation browsers"). Mozilla's Thunderbird is now developing a nifty little calendar plugin. Moving on from superficial stuff to how the stinking computer actually works, Windows Vista is making a move toward UNIX, which switch Mac made awhile ago...but Linux has been built on UNIX from day one!

My point is not that Windows is innovative - nobody should be saying that anymore...but the Open Source community IS innovative! The biggest reason I would consider NOT switching to Vista is simply that all the new features are available to me by installing various Open Source solutions to XP.

And y'know, the biggest advantages Windows has on Mac are:
1. Big market that will go with them no matter what, without thinking.
2. Like, every application, game, whatever, you could ever want, runs on Windows, but not on Mac.

Mac has the same things up on Linux. That's why I have Windows and Linux, and skip past Mac. That way the practical and idealistic sides of me both have their little playground, and I don't get caught somewhere in the middle.