This is a very true quote taken from a comment made on Slashdot by morgan_greywolf (835522) on the Microsoft’s XO Laptop Strategy story.

Here’s a fact: everybody needs an OS to do useful work on their computer. No one needs Windows. The fact is, despite what some might say, Linux is perfectly useable for the vast majority of computer users … the people who claim they “need” Windows, other than hard-core gamers (since their major application is not available on Linux), if they really examined what they truly needed (a word processor, a web browser, a spreadsheet, a personal finance app), vs. what they claim they need (”100% Microsoft Office compatibility”), they’ll find that most of what they claim as a need to have Windows is really a want and not a true need. A small — but significant — minority of computer users actually need Windows because the application they need has no equivalent on Linux.

I had to dig around for this article, but the comment on this one is funny. It was worth it!

TonioSop writes “Microsoft Research has released a new tool to help pinpoint large-scale typosquatters that are known to be gaming pay-per-click domain parking services. The lightweight prototype, called Strider URL Tracer, builds on the work within Microsoft’s Cybersecurity and Systems Management group to keep tabs on a sophisticated typosquatting scheme that uses multilayer URL redirection to make money from Google’s AdSense for domains program. “

Article is from Slashdot. And this comment made my day when I read it:

And here we have the Typosquatter, a theropod dinosaur, roughly between the early punchcards and their ultimate culmination in the Domain-Squatting dinosaurs. It lived between 1 to 13 years ago, in the Windows Ages.
Of the early Internet period, though one unknown species is from the very late Typewriter period. The various Typosquatter species are bulky omnivores, ranging from approximately 2 to 3 metres (5-8 feet) in height, and averaging about 235 pounds in weight.
Its most distinctive feature was the uncanny ability to take on the likeness of other domains, likely used for trapping its fumbling prey and for phishing scams. It was recently hunted to extinction by Tyrannus Microsoftus using its most effective method of capture, the ‘URL Tracer.’

The link to the exact comment is here.