I understand the pragmatic position you and Tom are taking. But I have to point out that Microsoft's monopolies aren't quite as solid as it would like everyone to think, and to some degree you're psyching yourselves out.

Microsoft Office is often given as a reason for staying in the fold, because it unites Mac and PC office workers in a common set of formats. Common formats are a good thing. But there's a Linux equivalent: OpenOffice, which was originally Xerox's StarOffice, commercial software turned into open source. The fact that MSOffice's formats are well-known, and it even provides interchange formats like XML, means that OpenOffice can do a pretty competent job on Office documents.

I've found that there's software available for all the categories on Linux, but generally not nearly as many choices within the categories. Except for Web server software, it's generally not as polished as the commercial Windows/Mac equivalents. But on the Web best-of-breed lives on Linux. Period. I used Microsoft's Web technology for a decade, and I've used Linux for half a decade now, and it's no contest.

Well, mcfly, I know you don't have the control over your work environment that Tom and I do, so the above may seem a bit gratuitous. If you're content you're content. I'm not criticizing your choice by presenting the alternative, but if it encourages you to push a little like you did with JQuery, that's cool. Then my work here is done...