So here's the list of folks that Microsoft has pissed off this year: OEMs, developers with yet another wave of API changes and such, CIOs with increased licensing costs and power users with Windows 8. (Not to mention shareholders, employees, etc...) Starting to look like an HP sized problem...

Even some of my hardcore Redmond loving co-workers have been playing with Linux and we have discuss the possibility of utilizing some of the nifty Python/C data tools that have matured over the last decade for analysis and ETL.