Check out this article at The Register, taking Microsoft to task for bug-ridden software and the people who buy it over and over again:
Code Red, Love Bug, Slammer, Nimda, Pretty Park, BubbleBoy, Melissa, Code Red II, MSBlaster, and numerous other high-profile Microsoft-sponsored incidents... many view them as "the price of doing business in the Information Age" and cheerfully spend (or lose) increasing amounts of money with each new incident arising from poorly designed software. But rather than face reality by conducting a dollars-and-sense risk assessment of their IT operation to see how much Microsoft's vulnerabilities cost their enterprise annually, these sheeple - at all levels of government, industry, and society - prefer tolerating mediocrity to efficiency and reliability in their software assets, because they're either too lazy to investigate alternatives or don't want to propose changes to the comfortable status quo.As a long-time Mac user, most of these viruses & worms don't affect me too much, but the latest e-mail propagator has proved to be a headache. It got so bad that I had to disable my wife's email account altogether, because it was clogged with nothing but "See attached file for details" messages. Speaking from experience, there is no reason why most users couldn't switch to a Mac, or even to a Linux box if they wanted to be daring. My clients never even know I'm a Mac user unless it comes up in conversation, and I have never had my machine crippled by a virus or worm. Posted by Jason at August 21, 2003 09:34 AM