with everything being web-based, windows is slowly turning into a fancy dummy term/thinclient. exactly the control businesses want.
linux on the other hand is being fleshed out as a true desktop pc with all the customization most of us expect of a daily driver.
in the movie the weird black rectangles started appearing in jupiters atmosphere. it might have had something to do with the aliens creating a sun for europa, which had some kind of organic life on it