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There’s a book called “Just Say No to Microsoft” (thanks Scoble). A few years ago I tried out Linux. Loading it up was easy. I enjoyed using my computer in a different way from everybody else. But overall, it was a huge time-waster. Getting it to work with the scanner, the printer, the digital camera – all the other things you use with a computer these days – could mean staying up till 2 a.m. and still I couldn’t get the damn thing working. Eventually I did the sensible thing and threw in the towel. I don’t care what anyone says about Windows, generally you plug in the printer and it works.

But I am ditching all the Microsoft applications that I run on my computer – Word, Excel, etc… They all have one thing in common that I don’t like – you have to pay for them. The fact is, there’s so much stuff these days that’s free, legal, and good. There are a lot of innovative and interesting things that aren’t Microsoft. It’s hard to argue that Microsoft has a monopoly these days, though the European Comission is trying.

Microsoft will be around for a long time making an operating system. Windows Vista will work with the TV – you’ll plug it in and that will be great – and then you will download your movies from Google.