I can see an opportunity here.
If someone is ready and poised to jump when the time comes, they should be able to tap into the market with a fully loaded hard drive, only needing a conversion and transfer of information from the Windows applications existing on the "old" machines. They should also be prepared to offer full educational services on using the new operating system and applications. In short, make a painless as possible transition service to those who are ready. If done well and with as little disruption as possible, I could see something like this taking off like a rocket.
I know very little about Linux myself, but understand that its stability and reliability is superb. I have LibreOffice and other such software but sometimes find them more awkward to use than Microsoft (shudder!), so I don't use them much. If they operate in Linux as they do in WIndows, that should reduce the transition problems.
