Well, we can, for the sake of argument, move over to desktop OS. MS is closed, administered by idiots (Elop kind of idiots), Windows is made by less intelligent beings with no clue how to make really GOOD software - and so on. Guess what MS rules the desktop. What about Linux. There are as many Linux distros as there are Linux dudes, and they are equally useless compared to Windows. Yes, you can browse the web with Linux, and you can read your e-mail, but it stops there. If browsing the web and reading e-mails is all you need, a trouble free tablet is a better choice, and I have at least 99% of the entire population with me on this.