* ckolivas keeps wishing people would stop using the windows version knowing he may as well wish the sky weren't blue.
And I have wished for years they were banned from connecting to the internet...
Windoze certainly is NOT my OS of choice. But that is where the world is and I am forced to use and know it. Sorry you have to share the pain.
I would argue that if it wasn't for windows, the internet would still be the way it was in the early 90s: A fad that only geeks use. Windows has its problems ... but its biggest one is most of the users are technologically clueless. Linux's biggest problem is how difficult it is to use.
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Actually the correct argument about windows is that computer software is in effect 10 years behind where it would have been had MS not been the dominant provider of computer OSes.
Mac, Amiga and Atari provided functional well used GUI based OSs long before Windows 95 appeared.
(Windows 3 is not an OS)
The Amiga had a full colour, GUI, good sound pre-emtive OS 10 years before that, used by everyone who bought the hardware.
Windows 3 was simply a program running on top of a that POS MSDos and was being used long after even Windows 95 appeared.
Even with high performance graphics, it wasn't until DirectX was in common use many years later that games were actually using the OS rather than taking over the computer coz the OS sucked so badly.
Meanwhile look at Windows 8 - lets turn Windows into an iPad - damn I am so glad I am not dependent of that trash that MS puts out.
In fact I'd go as far as to say that I hate MS for the fact that they try to dumb things down so that the average idiot can use it.
Seriously, let the average idiot go buy iPads and such and be happy with that mind numbingly simple and limited device.
Meanwhile, the other 5% (that's a guess) of people who know how to use computers shouldn't have to be given an interface even a 2 year old can use easily to stop them from clicking on the wrong damn button.
I'm not talking about geeks, I'm even referring to your typical office worker who has to use computers in everyday life and has gotten used to being able to do more than click on a big square that says 'click here'
The worst part of all this is that I see it happening sometimes even in the Linux world now.
Idiots who think like MS trying to dumb things down, but not only dumbing them down, restricting what can be done.
Sooner or later. 
