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Quote: "MS must be doing somthing right because nobody can't stop talking about them."

Just because people talk about something doesn't mean it's any good. It doesn't mean it's bad either. The odd thing is that pretty much every single operating system designed prior to Windows has had strong security principles in place, and has resulted in few troubles with reliability and security issues. Along comes Windows, ignores all of the security methods and bam! Has lots of problems. Sure the end users like it cos they just want to do their 'thing' and don't care about what happens with the system. They don't care about the fact that their system has a trojan on it, some cracker is accessing it remotely to use it as a spam relay and I get a shitload of spam emails because of it. Nooooo...see no evil, hear no evil. It's no reality that Microsoft Windows has more security related issues than any other previous operating system in existance!

I mean in Linux as an example, it has a strong user account policy, normal user, root etc. I can still play my CDs, listen to movies etc because the system has been designed very smartly. In Windows I *need* to be administrator before I can practically do anything useful with the system. That's not smart, and nor is it safe. And it's not a well designed system either - the main thing is that most of the Windows users are lazy and PC illiterate to a large extent and they simply do not care.

As to the kids, *most* kids that use PCs make a mess of it. Spyware, Adware, viruses, trojans you name it. The average kid is very much like that. 5% might look after their system properly (if that). I've seen it, i've been paid to fix PCs that have been messed up by careless kids. And the sad thing is that six months down the track you can guarantee that you'll have to fix it again for them (at a cost of course). They simply do not learn, don't want to learn and don't care. I still think a license to use a PC is a damn good idea. If you can't demonstrate reasonable knowledge then you're not allowed to own a PC or use one. It sounds cruel, but sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.

For those complaining about home networks etc, tell me, do you have "legal" copies of Microsoft Windows on *each* and every machine, or pirated copies? mmm? I bet the latter. And most households don't have a network running either, even if they do have multiple computers in the household.

Dave W Pastern