(Yes, this is somewhat trollish, intentionally, with malice aforethought.)
(I mostly want to hear from the defenders of the Microsoft Monopoly who will undoubtedly come riding to the rescue of the Redmond, WA bottom line, rather than admit there might be something intrinsically wrong with what "everyone" is using. And maybe I'll hear a new one. Maybe someone will make sense instead of firing up the insta-flame.)
(Yeah, right.)
And the added "bonuses" to users of "Windows" include but are not by any means limited to:
Very little thought (read "none") whatsoever about system, file, or user information security. (As simplistic and primitive as it is, can you say "rwxrwxrwx"?? Sure, I knew you could.) (While any system can be made insecure by the users, hacking Windows passwords is a joke. Don't believe me, ask the LC5 people for their opinion.)
Access to approximately 106,000 viruses, virus variants, trojan horse programs, "back door exploits", "spyware" applications, and various other wonderful "features." (Of which some thousand or so are actually being seen "in the wild" with any frequency at any given time.)
The ability to have someone hack into your computer simply by connecting it to the internet, without any user intervention (such as opening a mail attachment, viewing a web site, et c.) unless it is patched, patched, re-patched, and every patch for the current patch is applied, and then you're quite likely still out in the breeze. (The word of the day is "Bofra.")
And there's always the joy of paying for yet another "upgrade" to a Microsoft product, in the hopes that this version will fix the bug that has been biting on you since the -last- upgrade....
Rather than running Windows, I run -from- Windows. I've got enough problems just being an open-source freaking, crotchety, old, anti-M$ curmudgeon.
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wwill
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