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By 2011 i bet most people will be using it...sadly. As the tools and software apps (not just the OS's) advance PC's will need to be upgraded to run them, and within next 6 months every new PC will come with it as standard...and most people and buisnesses still seem reluctant to go for non MS OS's like Linux.
Annoyingly I am in the final (5th) year of my OU computing degree and of the 10 modules I will of studied I would not of been able to complete any if I had not been running an M$ O/S
Individually good programs ( I use FireFox), but I thought they didn't yet integrate diary, e-mail and contacts nor work with OpenOffice the way Outlook does with MS Office.
and about time .... I think the global take over of open source software has to be led by cross platform software like open office. Once everyone sees that it is (almost) as good as M$ office but free it will start the ball rolling. Especially in business environments. I also think it needs a better public face, if it had a Richard Branson (or Dr Who!) behind it I think it would go places.but when kids at school throught to pensioners at colleges have M$ word rammend down there throats it needs something big to change the situation.Annoyingly I am in the final (5th) year of my OU computing degree and of the 10 modules I will of studied I would not of been able to complete any if I had not been running an M$ O/S