What microsoft has to say about XP

[Steven Pasternak]

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 08:52, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I think that more people mould move away from WIndows if they read the
> notices on the microsoft website:
> "The simple act of visiting an Internet site can be extremely damaging to
> the system"
>
> from:
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en
>-us/windows_security_whynot_admin.mspx
>
> Important to note that the article quoted's purpose is to convince the user
> to create and use a standard account, and not the system's default
> Administrator account. What this means is that the system's default
> beaviour is to make the simple act of visiting an internet site extremely
> damaging to the system. Why on earth would people use such an OS?

Marketing. Dos/Windows was big and popular before the rest because it was easy 
and UNIX was big and expensive. Once enough people realize that paying $600 
just for the OS and Office is a rip off, linux/unix will get REALLY big.