"...the London Train Station is ... running on [Windows]"

"The London Train Station"? Which one is that?

Sorry, Giles, I couldn't resist that. (I had a look at one of the blogs you mention and found that.) <grin>

Actually, I suspect that most, if not all, of the rail companies use Windows for almost everything. I've regularly seen the Blue Screen of Death up on the departure-announcement board at railway stations after Windows has crashed yet again. Why they don't use a more robust solution (read Unix) for everything they possibly can is beyond me.

You see, I read:

... the best-known and most obvious being Robert Scoble's Scobelizer.

And I looked and found this

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/10/03.html#a11353

I picked a single amusing comment out of a post on Vista/Office 12, but basically he seems to me to be whistling in the dark to keep his spirits up. Time Bray had mentioned out that more businesses are using web apps, something we all know, not a new observation, one of the things Microsoft fears (and one of the reasons Microsoft used illegal methods to destroy Netscape: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm) -

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

- and this guy doesn't like to hear it. Tough.

Sorry, I'm not sure this is a particularly constructive post, but while I've very little time for Apple (I'm an OSX-user but not suckered by the "cult of the Mac"), I have even less for Microsoft. Maybe I'm wrong, but it looks to me like Scoble blogs is about arguing Microsoft's corner, and I don't see that as a model.