Windows Phone Thoughts: Solitaire = Source of Sedentary Sedition?

"US Republican Senator Austin Allran wants to erase all copies of Windows Solitaire from state-employees’ computers in his part of North Carolina. . . . He says folk there spend too much time sliping red queens on black kings rather than getting on with useful work. The article quotes research carried out by the Internal Revenue Service which says its employees spend over half their time on its computers playing games, shopping or gambling online. There is a healthy body of opinion which suggests the dominance of Microsoft’s Windows owes much to the inclusion of Soiltaire from version 3.1 onwards."

I've worked on Windows deployment project where exactly the same point has been debated. In the end, each project decided to leave it in. People need to slack off occasionally and if it's not Solitaire, it's something else. Personally I'm more of a Minesweeper/Jawbreaker kind of guy. ;-) If there is a game already present on a system, then it will reduce the incentive to fiddle and try and install one. Still, you have to wonder at exactly how much cumulative time the digital visions of solitaire have chewed up over the years. So, does the good Senator make a fair point or not?