News Summary

• Today, Linux for desktop computers is a real alternative to Windows, though its market share gains remain slow.
• While it does indeed have little or none of what we think of as "bloat," it does have plenty of issues that are annoying in the same way as Windows bloat can be.
• Microsoft clearly knows that Windows is going down the drain.
• The company has made big promises that it will fix the common issues people have.
• If it actually manages to paper over all the cracks, the average person will once again have little pressure to switch to anything else.