It also wouldn't cost as much as a small house to buy one.
"If GM had to please consumers like Microsoft, then every car would have to:"
I think most "enhancements" are driven more by M$ greed than by actual customer requests for improvements. Still, considering how much an M$ OS does, it is amazing there aren't more problems. But I think they should not have had everything so comingled directly into the OS. There is no reason a bug in media player should put an organization at a security risk.