And now on the serious side Deity. Anybody that buys a computer and goes online without installing some security is a fool, regardless of the OS. But, I do think the public should be able to buy a computer and it be reasonably protected out-of-the-box. Enter MS Internet Explorer. I don't use it. Although you can't remove it the first thing I do is delete the icon & install Firefox. Much more secure, no pop-ups, less overhead, etc. Then there's the wireless craz. Scary. I sit at my laptop at home and have at least 3 neighbors networks I can tap into because they brought their new computer or wireless lan home and never even installed security! How dumb. Although I'll have to say they make it very difficult for the average Joe Blow to set up. If you think MS has a bad attitude, try Citrix that my company uses (and MS quietly owns the majority interest) Although it works well the licensing is expensive and a nightmare and their attitude and support worse yet. Bottom line is that for the money we spend we should expect more. The hardware is reasonably okay, regardless of brand. The software & OS's suck! Until somebody comes along and knocks MS off the hill like we did IBM years ago because of their hollier-than-thou attitude it won't change.
I will agree with others that if Mac was the dominant OS's they'd have the same virus/worm/trojan attack problems.
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