Well, I like to root for the underdog as much as anybody, but Mr. Robertson largely brought this on himself. Has he ever heard the old saying 'Let sleeping dogs lie.'? Or how about 'Don't antagonize one's enemies.'? Microsoft, like any trademark holder, is legally obligated to enforce what it believes are its trademark rights against all of its percieved infringers. It is irrelevant whether Microsoft wins or loses. If a trademark holder in the United States fails to take affirmative enforcement action against an infringement of one of its marks, then it may lose all trademerk rights to that mark. An example would be 'cellophane'. Whoever once owned that trademark lost the rights to it because they didn't defend their mark, and it slipped into ther english language. "Xerox' is another trademark that may be in danger of becoming a verb. How many times have you heard one say they had xeroxed something? I don't believe Microsoft has a case in the U.S., however I am not as familiar with the law in other countries. As I understand things, windows is an english noun, and was so long before Mr. Gates was a gleam in his father's eye. However in the countries where Microsoft has prevailed, English is not the official language, which may give Microsoft some legal foundation upon which to base a trademark claim for the term 'Windows', since that particular word is probably not even in the official languages of those countries. In any case, any CEO worth his salary would never deliberately pick a fight with such a well heeled adversary as Microsoft without fully understanding the legal ramifications. Just my two cents worth.