My reasons for hating Windows

A lot of GNU/Linux users share these feelings and everyone reasons for hating windows are similar here are mine: 1. I hate M$ it is a monopoly who have maintained their monopoly by using the worst tactics possible. They have bought out/destroyed every single competitor. Remember netscape even US courts ruled against M$ but it doesn't stop M$'s practices The so called Get the facts campaign. 2.Use of proprietary formats, when you are using M$ products you are locked into forced use of those products if someday M$ disappears all your work will too. 3.Restarting the computer everytime I do anything. Even for something as simple as changing the IP I have to restart. 4.Security, well need I say anything. 5.No control of our own computer. When you buy a copy of windows basically you have given every right to M$ and you have to play by thier rules whether you like it or not. 6.Lack of quality software. It may seem surprising but uite a large portion of windows software is badly written and bug ridden. MSIE is the first thing that comes to mind. Some things I don't hate about windows: 1. Its not free: well nothing in this world is free and since they developed the whole thing themselves I don't see why they shouldn't charge for thier software. Its a privilege we have of using a system like like Linux(Its estimated cost of development would be around $1.1 billion if developed by proprietary means and that was in year 2000) 2. Its proprietary: I don't have a problem with proprietary software as long as it plays nice and follows standards.