Good job not reading the article.

you'd need 28 characters chosen in a true random fashion (think scrabble tiles
pulled out of a hat) to actually achieve a strength of 128-bit, that matches a
128-bit crypto or hash algorithm.

I think you mean "the noobs"

But why does this have to be the case with MS Windows?
I never had this problem on my GNU/Linux system. Nor have I ever heard anyone about this issue on Mac OSX.