The Scary Truth: Why You Should Avoid Microsoft Windows

People often complain about the bugs in Microsoft Windows and how it always gets viruses, but how bad is Microsoft, really? Microsoft has just under 90% of the OS (Operating System) market share. Millions of PC's are shipped everyday, preinstalled with the latest version of Microsoft Windows. When you buy your new computer, you get Microsoft Windows, that is unless you either buy a Macintosh PC, or buy a non-retailed PC with another OS, like Linux.
Windows is a very poorly designed Operating System, which is why it's not as stable as other OS platforms, such as Linux and Mac. This causes the system to crash more frequently (and easier), which gives the nickname Blue Screen Of Death. The “Blue Screen Of Death” refers the blue screen error (stop error) that usually occurs when the Windows system crashes.

Microsoft is ranked one of the top 10 most hated companies in the world. Another of Microsoft's biggest problems is security. Approximately 95% of Windows users face multiple attacks (viruses), within one year. What is the chance that you will become a victim of an attack? An average user, probably 4 or 5 out of 10. Literally, millions of errors, and virus attack reports are submitted daily, for Mac, a few thousand, for Linux, only a handful of viruses were made successfully. Even with a secure web browser and a good anti-virus, as long as you run Microsoft Windows, your computer is still at risk. There are always security holes in Windows, which hackers take advantage of, and never give up on finding. It's the Operating System that is leaving an open door for hackers to get in, steal your data or corrupt your system. Your data is just sitting on an open table. Any hacker can plot an attack at anytime. It's like you have a cabin with no door, you can patch up, try putting a blanket over it, but people can still come in.

Another big mistake, is that Microsoft Windows, does not take care of itself very well, like other systems do. Overtime, the system becomes more bloated with old updates (which never go away unless you manually delete them). Also, when you delete application, many of the files that came with it, still stay on your computer, it is mostly the main files that go. The system becomes fraged with the adding/removing of data. When your system becomes defraged, the hard drive has to spin longer to search through the gaps to find the data that the computer requests, in other words, making your computer slow. After a few years of this, that will cause the hard drive to fail. You have to defrag you system every now and then manually, by using defraging software. Most people think that computers just naturally get slow over time, the fact is, only computers running Windows do, and since most people use Windows, this is a very common issue.

Mac and Linux, on the other hand, are very well maintained, so the system is always running fast and stable. You don't have to maintenance them as much as Windows. You can have the same computer for 10 years or so, and it'll still run just as good as the day you got it, it may even run a bit faster.

Back when Windows 95 came out, there was complaints of it being bloated, slow and buggy. Sound familiar? It's the same mistake that they made with Windows Vista. I had tested Windows 7 (on a new laptop) with Windows XP. Windows 7, which had 2GB RAM, and 2.00+ GHz duel core processor, and it took over a minute to boot up. Windows XP, with 756 MB RAM and 1.80GHz single core processor was twice as fast booting up the Windows 7. One of the reasons what made Vista so crappy, was that Microsoft had obsolete data/software from Windows 95/98/2000! They just toss everything in, just in case it ever needed, which it wasn't. It's probably in Windows 7, and no doubt it will be in Windows 8: Azure.

Microsoft is more behind on standards then it's competitors. They add fancy colors, updated wallpapers, change file paths, to make it look newer. Microsoft Windows is obsolete software (even the latest version). Most “upgrades” are pretty much the same, except a few changes GUI (Graphical User Interface) and DE (Desktop Environment). It is mostly the keep up with the version of the web browser.

If you used Internet Explorer, there was always a problem with it being behind on web standards and never displaying a web page how it should be.. When web pages are made using Internet Explorer, when you see it in another browser, you get text overlapping, pictures off centre, etc. Macintosh is even a few years behind, but they are ahead of Windows, Mac and Linux are very similar to each other because they are based off of a system called Unix, which has been around longer then Windows. Windows is very much different, since it was created from scratch back in the 80's.

Here's an interesting fact, whenever Microsoft comes out with a new version of Internet Explorer, it follows with a Operating System “upgrade” too. Internet Explorer 9, came out not to long ago, and now Microsoft is creating Windows 8: Azure, which doesn't look too much different then Windows Vista/7. They did change a few things in Windows 7 for the better but still left plenty of bugs.

Windows XP, was a decent Operating System, I give Microsoft points for it, because in (in my opinion, it seemed like a good design, and it was good for it's time. It came with Internet Explorer 6, which people say was the worst version of Internet Explorer ever made. It was also abandoned for quite awhile (no updates) for at least months. Once they decided (a couple year later) to polish off Internet Explorer from the dust, they come out with version 7 (which had many ideas taken from other browsers, mostly Firefox), then soon followed Windows Vista.

Why I ditched Windows:
After using Windows 7 and I got fed up with the bugs and stuff. I looked for a better alternative, which I found out about Linux, then I swore to never use Microsoft Windows again. Whenever I buy a new PC, the first thing I do when I get home, is install Linux. Linux is a very good alternative. It is better in pretty much every aspect from Windows (except for if you're a PC gamer). It's free, very user friendly and the software you get is free too, including Libre Suite.

The best thing for you to do, is avoid Microsoft, and get Linux or Mac, highly recommend Linux, since it's most up to date and updated more frequently. Do I need a new computer to run Linux? No. Most likely, unless your computer is really old, just about any distribution for Linux should work just fine. If you run an older computer, there are distributions like Lubuntu which can run fine on it. If you plan on ditching Windows completely, make sure you back up all your data first if you're going to do a full install of Linux.

Some Cool General Information About Linux:
No doubt that you've used Linux before without even knowing it. Linux derived from Unix and most (except one) of the worlds Super Computer run on Linux. The only one that doesn't is the one owned by Microsoft and it (of course) runs a Microsoft OS. Linux is available in many distributions that run on a wide range of computers and hardware. It doesn't just run PC's (Personal Computers) but also runs most of the worlds web serves, also bank computers, check-out machines, even appliances and other electronics, change as the menu on you TV, or the program menu on your  VCR or DVD player, or ATM bank machines that you use to take money out. There are quite a few Operating Systems that are used for ATM's, but usually it is a version of Linux. If you noticed those custom monitors with the bottoms on the side at the check-out. No doubt, that runs a version of Linux. Most advanced PC's that people use for Networks and big companies probably run Linux. Linux is the also used on most servers.