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Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox
An anonymous reader writes "There is a new plugin available for IE that can make Internet Explorer resemble Firefox by adding tabbed browsing capabilities and an integrated search box. Moreover, the plugin improves IE's privacy and security by integrating a firewall designed to block out Internet exploits, phishing sites, spammers, spyware and worms, with a special HTTP filter that removes private data, and an anti-spyware tool that can identify and remove all pests in less then 10 seconds"
You're statement is baffling in just about every way. A car that costs the same as a Ferarri and looks like a Ferrari IS a Ferrari. Thats what people care about. My wife doesn't like Mercedes because she doesn't like the tail lights. Telling her she is an idiot for liking other cars is not the way to get her to buy a Mercedes.
I'd like to point out that most users, when asked if they'd like to try another operating system that's more secure and more stable, would either say "what's an operating system" or "ok, that sounds great" - having no idea what they're agreeing to, but hearing "security" or "stabiilty" and not wanting to sound stupid. And then they'd still buy that gardening software, possibly the mac version.
Choopping one's leg off isn't a good analogy, either, since that's pretty irreversible. Changing operating systems is rather minor, though.
I don't particularly think it's a good idea to just randomly change OSs, but that also applies to changing versions of windows - if someone came in with Win 98, it'd be a good idea to bump them to Win 2K or XP for security update availability reasons. Reinstalling '98 would also result in that new peice of software not working, and would be just as likely to result in some kind of lawsuit (which leads to another ant about why people are such assholes recently, and think that the proper way to resolve most any dispute is to bring it into a court, but that's another topic)...