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.