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• chustar: Because Microsoft is everyone's whipping boy. >.< There is a lot of valid criticism of Microsoft, and its software. But many believe that it makes their point stronger if they call names and attack Microsoft, rather than point out the facts.
  
  crabmeat: Why should we have to work for Microsoft? Do they have a right to our money, our code, and a place on our desktops? I like to think that I don't have to use their software, even if they try very hard to make me. Furthermore, their software is demonstrably less secure and more poorly-designed than its competition, especially their Internet Explorer web browser and Windows Vista operating system.
  
  My brother keeps trying to tell me that Linux is just like Windows, and that the only reason there are hardly any viruses for it is because relatively few people use it. That's what they said about Mac, too, and that's what they continue to say even now that Apple is one of the biggest computer manufacturers in the United States. Likewise, Firefox has come out of nowhere to take a substantial market share, and yet it's still plagued by fewer security holes. This article is helpful in explaining why.
  
  You may have to use Microsoft software because of your work requirements or to run certain apps, but you don't have to be resentful of those who do not. Someday you'll have that choice too, whether or not you decide it's the best one. But it'll be you who decides. In reply to: "Microsoft FUDwatch II: Internet Explorer vs. Firefox security"

  December 3, 2007

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