It’s about time someone said this. I my self am a windows developer. In the beginning of this year I was very interested in developing for Linux. As the year went on I was also using .NET on windows. I discovered that developing for Linux is very cumbersome. There are just too many choices and not all of them work with every flavor of Linux. It just took to long to develop on Linux. I don't think Windows is going down anytime soon or even in the future if Linux keeps going down this path. Supporters of Linux need to concentrate on the developers. Make things easy for them. The more Linux apps that are out there that can work on all flavors of Linux. The less reasons people have not to switch to Linux.
Microsoft to fall over in 2006? pfft!