> MS did not force anything upon you...you purchased the product.

I did not. All my machines run Linux, but yet I have to deal with a deluge of spam and viruses every day, almost all of it coming from compromised Windoze machines. Without as much as looking at Billy boy's "products" I have plenty of troubles with them already.

On one point you are right: if any other OS becomes as popular as Windoze, it will also be attacked as much. All today's OSes stand up to attacks better than Windoze but, granted, any one of them would suffer more if it run on 95% of the desktops. The solution to that is obvious: let's not have another monopolist when Gates is gone. Long live Linux, *BSD, Slowlaris, Netware , BeOS and every other OS a decent programmer will write in the coming years.


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