Let me say something for all you Microsoft fanboys (e.g. #sub lads) - Microsoft is not a good company, they got so big not through healthy competition such as innovation, but through forcing manufacturers to use their products and not allow them to use competitors products.

This is not how business is supposed to be run, and that is why there was a long-winded anti-trust case brought against Microsoft. Let me say it one more time - Microsoft is not a good company. They constantly used dubious business practises to lock people into using their software.

Stop defending a bad company just because you are blinded by some sort of ignorance to any other viewpoint.

I am not saying Billgates = evil, I am not saying Microsft = evil, and I'm not saying any other software company (Apple, Red Hat) is any less evil.

I like Windows (in its current form), the NT core is a solid base - and I hate Linux/Apple fanboys who rip Windows saying it's unstable/shitty/slow when it clearly isn't. Windows 9x/DOS was a joke, a horrid piece of nonesense that was unstable and generally shitty. But then again Microsoft didn't make DOS did they.

And time for a thrid statement of a fact - Microsoft is not a good company, stop defending it with rubbish claims.