Please stop using Windows and other MS products (Score 1)

Linux is superior to the Windows platform. The file system makes it difficult to remove essential OS components or corrupt program files. With Windows, any user can delete any file so long as it isn't resident in memory. With Linux, processes can safely be killed. On Windows, killing a process might corrupt the state of the OS and require a reboot. Also, Linux has less security problems than Windows, and when Microsoft learns about security problems, they are not always prompt or even responsible when it comes to resolving them.

Microsoft cannot be trusted. They steal technologies and innovation from other organizations like Xerox, Sun, and the WC3, and use their financial power and lawyers to stomp out competitors. Sometimes, they make modifications to the innovations others have come up with, and modify them so they will not interoperate with the originals. Furthermore, Microsoft has been known to be untrustworthy by employing technologies that are anti-competitive. They also use patent warfare as a way to make themselves money and supress the technological community. Linux is free to use, modify, and distribute, so long as you give authors credit. That is not much to ask. Moreover, there are thousands of great programs and utilities for use with Linux. These are free as well.

If you use Windows, you are doing yourself and the world a major disservice. If your reason for using Windows is because of the application support, you should change your applications or write to vendors encouraging them to port there software. There is no excuse.

If you use Windows because it is user friendly, that may be true in the short term. It is not true in the long term because your dll's will overwrite one another when you install a new program causing binary incompatibitly. Also, programs are free to modify the registry resulting in slower load times and system corruption.

I urge everyone to stop using this Operating system in favor of a *nix OS. Please stop supporting Microsoft and start supporting more viable OSes. Reasons you can't refute have been stated above, and the software is readily available. Now go to www.linuxiso.org and get started.