Alot of people bag Gatesy yet are still quite prepared to use his products as their mainstream or only computer software. It's either jealousy or hipocrisy or maybe Bill does make a better product or all three of the above?
This is a standard argument, but one which is inherently flawed. The point is that when buying a computer most customers do NOT get an option about the operating system installed, nor do they specify it, nor do they understand the consequences of the foregoing.
MS has tied up the market by going for the manufacturers and having Windows as an installed OEM. (This is partly why I find an "award for enterprise" rather amusing!
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However much we may say "oh a customer could always ask for Linux", the fact is that Windows' ubiquity has nothing to do with the end user. Let's face it, if MS was *really* concerned with end users as the customer, they'd be more careful about bug/flaw/exploit checking, and their customer service would be better...
Of course, there are also people like me who really have no choice about using Windows because (a) all our customers need 100% Win-compatible files, and (b) we don't want to give up mIRC!
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