kurttrail wrote:
Robert Moir wrote:

kurttrail wrote:

And I'm not really anti-MS, I'm pro-consumer-choice, and MS just
happens to be the biggest obstacle in the way of Consumer Choice.

You know. You can go buy an Apple computer tomorrow running OS X.
I've got an iBook right here on the desk besides the computer I'm
using now and its very nice.

Will the Apple OS run of my PC? Does the Apple OS run all the
programs I've purchased over the years? Will I have to give up my
computer education up to this point to start from scratch with
another OS? Can I afford to give up the computer system I've built
up over the years?

Obviously not. There is a price to be paid for "switching". There is a price
to pay to run XP in a more secure mode, and many people are unwilling to pay
that much.

One thing though. It has these problems with buggy code that require
you to download periodic updates. There is this especially nasty one
with an exploit in how it handles DHCP.

And your point is?

That there isn't a panacea out there.