| QUOTE (gtrplr @ 10-Aug-2004, 03:17 PM) | Instead, they put up with spy/ad/malware, viruses, trojan horses and computer crashes. They spend a small fortune on software from third parties designed to fix the problem, hire consultants to clean their computers and fix the problem and a week later, they're as bad off as before.
Why? Do they not know that better software is available? Do they not care? Do they believe the guys at the computer store who tell them "Linux? You don't want Linux. It's only for hackers. You need to run WindowsXP, despite its security problems. Of course, you'll also need XYZ and ABC for your computer or it'll run really slow and eventually crash. That will be $599, please." |
This is one reason why I still believe Macs rock -- to date, there have been less than 30 viruses written for the Macintosh, and over 15 of them were little gimmicks designed to display a clever message on a specific date, over 10 years ago.
Hopefully the XP SP2 will solve some of these problems. My company designs software that allows blind computer users to hear their computer (it's called a screen reader), and we've been following the SP2 developments very closely.
You can also stop popups with the Google toolbar. I've had mine in for about a month now, and to date it's stopped 153 popup windows.
Erik Deckers
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Spyware
But I'll still admit that Windows is still better for Average I-don't-know-computers Joe's desktop despite the bloat, bugs, crashes, expense, and privacy invasion involved with Microsoft products. 
