how do you know that...and care to enumerate them? fact is, the most successful are always targets as they are cash cows for the less successful.

no I don't know...how many? see above.

that's so subjective its not even relevant

surely you jest...

ummm what?

yikes,
#1 a year or two? LOLOL
#2 so what?! if a yugo starts when its ten below...its still a yugo
#3 checked out Win 7?? it comes real close...oh wait

then how would you know?

#4 what do you need with a 10 second boot for there Batman?

you mean like features and the aforementioned functionality that most of us use?

oh ...like Windows 7 that can be easily run on a Pentium 3 and 1Gb og ram?....oh wait, you cant know this as you ..

Pleeeeeeze, nothings free. do you really think your "free Linux would exist if it wasn't for M$??

why would you need a validation check for "free software" ?

yeah, so did the trains under Mussolini...oh wait...no they didn't.

You work for FSF don't you?

sngx and one of those people are myself and my brother, Linux has it sure fire uptown parade aspects for server management, but windows...kind meh, ho*y sh*t I didnt get it right.

This guy that likes windows 7 is probably a microsoft employee. Has he seen the news about the fatal flaws in windows 7? F#@k micr*s*ft and F#@K Bill G@tes. Did you know that Mr. Bill is a firm believer, and big supporter of Eugenics? Yep. If you don't know what eugenics is then look it up. Scary. Microsoft.

fatal flaws in windows 7. check it out.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/146995

http://techblips.dailyradar.com/story/critical_windows_7_bug_risks_derailing_product_launch/

This is a good one: "windows 7 made for hackers" haha
http://ibtimes.com.au/articles/20090913/windowsmade-for-hackers.htm

I feel sorry for your employer. It is easy to assume that you have have never done any kind of work other than using one of those graphical RAD tools. Probably have never seen a text mode window!
In a sense you are right, Linux is like Windows 3.1, actually you can include even win98 in that the gui is riding on top of text based OS, ala Unix. But there the comparison ends.
If you were to dig deeper there are a whole lot of M$ included utilities which require you to open a command prompt window to work or they will work only on reboot - BEFORE the graphical interface loads. Even at installation time (Win XP instance) a lot happens before the GUI is mounted.
But then you wouldn't know about it since there would be a whole lot of admins and maintenance technicians in your place of work to take care of this business.

Well, at least its not as bad as Apple Training.

I would believe your paragraph 10 or maybe even 5 years ago, but not today. Linux is already as easy to use as Windows and already outshines Windows and Mac in terms of performance. Drivers are generally a piece of cake unless it's an oddball piece of hardware. As far as older hardware goes, you have better luck getting drivers for Linux than you do getting them to install in Windows.

Most distros of Linux have a pretty nifty update manager that works as well as Windows. Most major Linux software including the OS itself is updated more regularly than Windows or Mac software. This has been a complaint by some MS lovers that fail to realize these aren't "security updates," they are software revisions. Big difference. Linux isn't set on a 5 year life cycle with a couple major updates in between.

I'm not a Linux expert and I have no problems installing or downloading things for Linux. Granted, it is different than Windows. Windows will let you double-click and install anything you want: software, games, drivers (unless it's 64bit), trojans, malware, whatever.

With you being in IT, I would have figured you would be relatively well versed considering Linux machines and Linux Live discs can save and fix Windows boot and partition problems that any version of Windows would shrug its shoulders and advise a format. As a bonus, Linux can freely recover deleted files that you would have to buy a program for on Windows to do the same thing. Not to mention even newer Linux distros can bring back to life older hardware that would crawl under Windows.