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wbmw: Microsoft is leagues ahead of Linux in consumer mindshare, and it would take many years to even put a dent in that. The 64-bit label will do little for Linux sales in the consumer market, so Microsoft has nothing to fear. Linux has barely any marketing presence, and besides, it's not about how many bits the OS has, but rather how many applications run under it. Microsoft has all the cards here, and no amount of 'Droid logic can change that.

It's not the consumer market they are worried about. For a large subset of business desktops (not to mention servers), Linux is quickly becomming a very viable--and relatively free--option. All typically used applications have their open-sourced equivalents. Europe is on this in a big way. Microsoft is not oblivious to this.