[Tax Government]

Microsoft is itself responsible for this situation. They created an architecture which allows executable content to be placed on machines without the consent of the user. They papered it over with a transparently flawed content-signing model.

Microsoft has been negligent. By ignoring the obvious consequences of their decisions on customers, a court might find them to have been civilly or criminally negligent.

Why did it happen? Because Microsoft managers are in it for the money only, are short sighted, and are more concerned with surviving in the organization long enough to vest their stock options, than in being customer or even corporate advocates.

Who will suffer? Well, we all will. But ultimately, Microsoft will, and its preeminence will be lost.

[B Knotts]

The users are to blame.

People keep finding excuses not to migrate off Microsoft, like a battered wife sticking with her abusive husband.

If they do it much longer, Microsoft will find a way to force people to use their server software, and, while they can never really "kill" Linux, will minimize its impact.

Wake up people. This is the time to get off Microsoft, while the gettin' is good!