Having been a developer for quite a while, if I ran into something that didn't work on Windoze, invariably, my bosses or clients suspected me. Now, the first assumption they make (my clients) is that something is wrong with the Microsoft product. And every client I speak to is very interested in my thoughts on the Beast. It is refreshing to finally have more than a slim minority listening.

Heck, even a few of my clients who used to be died-in-the-wool Microsofties barb them with regularity and ask me about alternatives (one I just successfully turned from a WindowsCE project into an embedded Linux project). Once the platform switched, development was much easier - the client is elated. Today he asked me to look for alternatives to his windows based accounting & inventory systems. It makes me feel good to know I'm making my little dent ;-)