I hate microsoft but have to thank them (Score 1)

I've been hating micro$oft for quite some time. For being too damn unstable and crappy. Giving me super a lot of security problems while i was mantaining a small 20 computer lab. any 15 year old boy in my lab could easily break the security and install games on the lab computers... Another major issue is most of the games only support windows, which makes my machine from windows-free impossible. When you have some thing you do not like but couldn't get rid of them, you will start to hate them. However, taking a different view, if microsoft never existed, would all the open source people fight so hard? Will the linux desktop be as easy to use as today? Microsoft did not use very disgusting way in fighting the OS war, (at least not like SCO), instead, they do focus on how to improve their stuff and lower the price (though not much). This is a good situation, a positive competition which benefits all of us, no matter if you use Windows or Open-source, the quality of the software did indeed improved a lot.