It's because a lot of people fuck it up and try to get a warranty replacement rather than taking personal responsibility.

I have seen a lot less infections of this type on 64-bit Vista systems so it may be possible that some flaws are actually being closed (such as drivers requiring signatures, a pain for those of us trying to use certain free software but a boon for users prone to malware).

It's not that it's an unfree market, it's more of a natural monopoly. Free market is not the solution to all problems. You are free to write and promote a new OS and take over the market but you won't because it's hard. Antitrust law is fundamentally anti-free-market so you obviously understand that market freedom has to be limited because of the human nature to take advantage of freedom. Leveraging antitrust law on MS is not a bad idea but it is of course a lot more complicated than that. I'm not sure about your proposed result but I suppose it could be possible. Alternatively, if software patents weren't such a problem maybe ReactOS would become a reality faster and implement some of the changes you wish for as a real competitor.

Hopefully you are licensing it properly http://www.malwarebytes.org/corporate.php because the free license does not seem to cover using it in the way you are describing.

"1. Not to use this software for commercial use without proper licensing."

You should consider donating to the combofix developers as well if it's benefiting your company so much.

I like Antivirus 2011 more, although it seems to use a bit more of my internet connection all the time for updates.

Sadly, in the typical office this move would remove him from the employed group.

NOD32, Avira, and Avast are popular now, as well as Malwarebytes for the less destructive nasties.

I sometimes try to convince people of this but most are blinded by the draw of new technology. Color laser used to be reserved for the rich but now anyone can afford it and just having it makes them feel better. A lot of tech purchases are due to an effect like this. The emotional component should not be discounted; the choice is more than a logical one.

Some of the best windows support too, have you seen the quality of their drivers? Compared to Lexmark, HP, and Dell to name a few; It's wonderful.

Plus the prices of laser printers are nowhere near what they were 15 years ago. That $2000 (i don't remember what they cost back then but it was at least that much) monochrome laser from 15 years ago can be replaced by a $150 model today. If it lasts 2 years that's still an amortized net gain. 'Good enough' is the new standard; deal with it.

It's not just dead to peer group; most modern jobs require use of the internet in some way. It's a sentence of poverty (which coincidentally is becoming essentially more illegal every year...)

If you only keep one copy of your data anywhere, even "the cloud", it was never safe.

Only if SV Inc trademarked their company name (which many companies do not do). SV LLC is a legally distinct name and the case would not be as straightforward as you expect.

Screw educating, this situation calls for whitelisting and non-administrator privileges.

You would rather install a huge software suite than look at the menus for a few seconds for a print option? hint: File->Print. It even defaults to printing all slides so you don't have to change anything!