The kicker about Windows is, what if you are a corporation with a paltry million dollars worth of corporate secrets (that would be a small corporation). It might be recipes, it might be a formula for the electrolyte in a capacitor, it might be plans for future features for a television studio, the list is endless. Now this really IS information you absolutely need to keep private.
But Windows gathers up 2 unknown packets of information every single day and sends it off to Microsloth. Harmless, they say, they'll never do anything evil with that information. Maybe not. But your start button doesn't work. You can't evaluate updates any more for security problems--you must download them when your machine demands. You can't even schedule them.
And one thing you know for sure. Those Microsoft routines with rights to every file on your machine work without detection by any anti-virus or anti-spyware program on earth. Forget about Microsoft, all a criminal has to do is hook those routines and your machine is HIS machine. No anti-virus or anti-spyware program on earth can find him.
That was the main hazard of the infamous Sony rootkit, which by the way, cost Sony billions of dollars before that debacle was through. The fact that Sony's rootkit hid itself from your computer meant that any bad guy who wanted to could jump right into their hidey hole with them and be similarly undetectable. And they did.
Microsoft is making Sony, which met worldwide outrage and legal consequences, look like a boy scout troop. Nobody cares about Microsoft. "That's the way things work now. Get used to it" the sycophants scream in unison, reading from their cue cards, as we sound the alarm. "There is something serious wrong here."
Linux really is good enough now. You don't have to go along with the "way the world is now." You won't be crippled. You won't be inconvenienced, other than learning the alternate universe that is Linux. If you think learning is an inconvenience, that's evidence that you are old beyond your usefulness!
