Don't forget what everybody else has
Here in Taiwan, there are very few Mac users. The serious Mac users are all graphics professionals, but the business and academic users are about 99.99% Windows users. I am almost required to have a Windows machine and OS to be compatible with everyone else.
I've tried Linux, Open Office, Star Office, and whatever that program is that makes MS Office for Windows compatible with Linux (it's been a couple of years), and they just don't work as well as MS Office for me. Making macros without having to write them in a programming language is easy using MS Word. But they don't convert to Open Office or Star Office macros.
I'm a medical editor most of the time, and most medical journals around the world ask for manuscripts in MS Word DOC format or RTF format -- that means they'll take WordPerfect files in RTF but not WPD format. I don't know why, though, because they usually turn them into PDF format.
And almost all the add-on software I have is Windows-compatible only. Why would I want to spend a few thousand dollars more to buy Mac or Linux versions?
There's nothing I need or want to do on my PC that I can't do with Windows or can do better with a Mac or a Linux machine and software. Except, of course, hyperbolically bitch about how bad Windows is.
Finally, since XP, Windows has become a stable and reliable world-class OS. It's taken 15 years for Windows to catch up with Mac, and now that it has, there's no longer a reason for me to switch -- especially now that Mac is supposed to be switching to Intel platforms. I'm happy with Windows XP Pro.
