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.
