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This article is so silly that I created a Salon account just to reply.
I thought this story might be a well-reasoned and thought-out explanation involving the lack of anti-virus subscriptions or something like that. Who the heck thinks of trade-in value when buying a computer? How many people really sell their old computers after a year or two?
And if I did sell or give away a Windows machine, I would never do it without first wiping the hard drive, thereby solving any concerns about it being "gummed up" with viruses and spyware (which, btw, I never have a problem with anyway).
I couldn't care less which computer people choose to use. And I'm certainly no big fan of Microsoft or Windows. But this whole line of reasoning is just dumb.
