Firefox: 48.8% IE: 32% Safari: 16.3% Chrome: 3%

IE would loose even more if the library wasn't full of MSFT Dells.

My wife uses Ubuntu on her laptop. It was quite painful to get started with it two years ago, but she had already been using OpenOffice (which was her choice, because she refused to buy MSFT Office and was prepared to use a text editor until I showed her OpenOffice). That would have been a huge leap, except she was already using Firefox. Which just wasn't all that big a leap.

We installed Ubuntu dual-boot because she could never get on the wireless network at work and I'd always come in, get on the network with my laptop, and then go online and look for how to fix her Windows problem. So she wanted to give that a try. And she didn't want to get on the internet. She really just wanted to send stuff to the printer.

She hasn't booted into windows in over a year. Totally her choice.

Now her girlfriends at work (~20 employees, 90% women, everyone uses their own laptop) are asking her questions about why her windows wobble and how it is she can fetch documents from home, and how to they get their wireless networks to pop out of a widget at the top.

Our kids have had more exposure to Linux than to Windows. My wife also uses her laptop to set up a movie for them to watch (the Smurfs and Bob the Builder are their favorites), when we drive to my parents' house (8 hours away). They play Sesame Street Workshop, Starfall, whatever.

Time. It takes time. Measured on a generational scale.