The thousands of engineers world-wide usually do not have a say in what system they would like to use.
- As a general rule, engineers do not like the Windows environment, I speak from experience.
- Windows look and feel has gotten better, but it doesn't compare with high end hardware and software based on Unix.[/*]
- And as the last poster pointed out, Microsoft's predatory practices such as insisting that OEM's bundle a half-functional Windows OS with hardware is offensive to one's intelligence - something that most engineers usually have a lot of.[/*]
- Then taking control of your system to ram updates into it - even when you've opted to first review and then decide on your own if you want those crappy updates -- is criminal. [/*]
In ordinary daily life, this type of behavior is called "breaking and entering" and "trespassing". We as a society punish trespassers and burglars. Windows as a piece of s-ware is not morally bad, but Microsoft's practices are.