Then you're blind, because I still don't see anyone posting anything significant proving what I said otherwise. You guys always look for something wrong in Windows when your kernel isn't anything pretty and it gets annoying to Windows users. I highly doubt Vista will flop..more like wipe Linux out the desktop scene..
I doubt it will wipe Linux out, but I still think that the better majority (meaning larger) of people who claim to be "pro-Linux" are script kiddies who run Windows 99% of the time and just use a PHP webserver that their moms pay for and they use CPanel to administer. Meaning: they don't know anything about operating Linux.
An analogous situation would be Joe being Canadian. Everyone knows he's not, he lives in the US, he was born in the US, but claims to be Canadian. Just because he says "eh." I say "eh" too. It doesn't make me Canadian.
But yes I agree, Linux is annoying to Windows users, and arguably so is Windows. At least in Windows, though, I intuitively know where to go to operate my machine my way. That may be true in Linux too, but it's not my experience. In my mind, having to go to a command line is not intuitive. I used DOS for the better part of my life, and I know the intracacies of the DOS command line so well I could write you a batch file that would make your computer self-destruct from its leet-ness. Still, Windows is infinitely more intuitive than a command line. I think expecting a user to go to the commandline, enter "su" and "sudo
some-obscure-file-name-with-architecture-id.rpm" just to install something is not intuitive.
With a little common sense and knowledge you can secure a Windows computer. I know, because I've done it. Multiple times. It's not that hard.