From: Anders Johansson < On Friday 03 November 2006 04:02, Ken Jennings wrote:

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I second that. The PC maintenance people at work HATE Windows. (They only have about 500 PCs to manage at my site, but there are probably 10,000 computers on the entire corporate network at different sites.) In spite of the obscene amounts of money spent on firewalls and virus protection everywhere we've still been hit at least once a year by some Windows exploit. I heard some back room whispering and I understand they've been evaluating SLED and like it. They just have to figure out how to get more clueless managers to agree Windows is the root of the productivity problems.

See, this is where it falls down.

Go to your boss and say "we shouldn't be using Microsoft because I hate it", and see how long you keep your job

I do that all the time. I develop for unix, so bitching about Windows is one of the little perks I get. Office activities, writing documentation, timecards, contracting viruses, and such are done on Windows. I've also been able to say the same (well, with more concrete reasons than just , "I hate it.") to the bosses two levels higher than my boss. I hope eventually it will sink in.