Originally posted here by cutty

You know why? We settle for second best, because it's easier. We don't want to go the extra mile for what is better and that's just an issue people like Bill capitalizes on and always will. Until the day we open our eyes and see windows for what it really is then Bill we continue to make tremendous amounts of money for building OSs that have four times more errors than the one before and make twice the amount of money for it.
Microsoft for a while has had a "monopoly" on the market and when there is not a compediter then your product does not have to be amazing just "good". Windows is by far easier for most people to use. Hense alot of buisnesses will use it so they dont have to spend $$$ training the entire company how to use it. Instead they use Windows for day to day company stuff and use nix in part of IT for various things that it is needed for. Also it is not really cheaper to use Linux in the corperate enviornment... Little thing with linux that costs money is support... most companies cannot afford to not have support on servers. Its not that we settle for second best, it is more that we have to do what is best for the company. Microsoft is also expanding in Research and Development so hopefully it will get better. The best computer enviornemt is one that uses the best of what the distros offer.