[SGVLUG] Is poking fun at Microsoft ever "off topic"?

[Emerson, Tom (*IC)]

Found this on the same site I posted earlier -- too good not to pass
along [given the usual stance taken by many around here...]

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Is Windows a Virus or a Bug?
(From: John Borchard (jb at dendritics.com).) 

Is Windows a Virus? No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do: 

	They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that. 

	Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the
system as they do so - okay, Windows does that. 

	Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay,
Windows does that too. 

	Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with
valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too. 

	Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is
too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with
Windows, too. 

Until now it seems Windows is a virus... But there are fundamental
differences: 

Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most
systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend
to become more sophisticated as they mature. 

So Windows is not a virus. 


It's a bug.