Re: "It has been a hellish couple of weeks for the Windows giant"
'My students love it. It's the next excuse for missing assignment deadline and asking for an extension.'
When my (computer science) students come up to me with an excuse like that, I simply point them to all the Linux machines in the computer lab (they can be booted to Windows too (I think 7, I never use that), we are not an anti-MS shop).