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Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet
pkluss noted Kevin Turner, COO of Microsoft making the proclamation that "Vista today, post-Service Pack 2, which is now in the marketplace, is the safest, most reliable OS we've ever built. It's also the most secure OS on the planet, including Linux and open source and Apple Leopard. It's the safest and most secure OS on the planet today."
There are 3 issues any competing OS faces when going against the monopoly. First, machines that come with Windows pre-installed. People are lazy and won't change from what they got in the first place. Second, software availability. People want the software they buy to work. Since the software on the shelves are predominantly Windows, that means you need Windows to run it. Average users won't jump through hoops (vitalization / Wine) to get the program to run simply to stay in Linux. Lastly, there is still the perception that "Free" is garbage which comes from all the crapware that usually comes pre-installed as "Free" software (usually trials that expire or shareware / nagware).
As someone else pointed out, the reason the Linux pre-installed usually fail to sell properly is because when the customer gets it home a pops in their kids latest game it won't work so they are stuck with a game that requires Windows and an OS that won't play that game. How long before that machine sees a pirated version of Windows installed is only a matter how long it takes for them to torrent it.
So yes, as long as Microsoft has the monopoly, we will see lower than expected alternate OS numbers.
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Yes, but with Linux fanboys such as yourself, you go to that restaurant and they don't sell fruit you want for some ideological bullshit reason, so you bitch about the fruit and where it comes from rather than the ignorant bastards that manage the restaurant, as you stroke Stallmans balls and praise him for being the hippie god of hypocrisy.
Linux fanboys continually talk about how Linux is superior because of freedom while at the same time excluding software from its distributions and kernel drivers because of ideological based restrictions. It doesn't matter if your a blind fanboy and can't see Linux's problems, they are still Linux's problems, even if you're just ignorant and blinded by your religious devotion to Stallman.
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