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To: tecate78732 who wrote (257465)	12/20/2008 10:31:05 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

Re: If you use a 16 year old and 20 year old as a gauge for the future, I would hazard a guess that windows would decline, but then again, one of our sons is more 'into' PCs as gadgets the other is a just a 'user' Windows has had some ugly security issues in the past few weeks. It's not going to move things yet, but much more of this and we'll have enterprise sites reconsidering their near 100% use of windows on the desktop. Windows has just about recovered from the reliability issues raised by the original volume licensing implementation of Vista (that left tens of thousands of systems "broken"). Any more security issues and admins could start reminiscing about that, too.