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Oh, man, I am such a rabid supporter of Microsoft. I'm glad to see a few opinions posted so far that also understand the intricacies of capitalism. Every company strives to be number one; that is the whole point of having a company; if Netscape or Apple had the leading market share, do you think they'd be complaining about Microsoft's business ethic? No. Bill Gates is my hero, and I'm not even driven by capitalistic urges, I just understand that society is.
As for their products: I know I can't speak for everyone here, but I have never had a problem with a Microsoft product, and I do everything with my systems: gaming, programming, 3d modeling, graphic design, audio manipulation, web serving, everything. The few problems I have had were due to poorly-written third party software, and I'm sure someone could rebut this with, "well, if they released their source code, better programs could be written." Fuck that.
It is every company's prerogative whether to release their code. Information is meant to be free, but code isn't information, it's a product of information, and products are (typically) meant to be sold.
Their security flaws are only so prevalent because everyone focuses on them. With (if I recall correctly) 75% of servers and 80% of workstations running Windows, why would you really bother to exploit flaws in other OSes?
I have used Linux many times; I actually have it installed on a secondary machine right now, and I agree that its security and stablility are nice, but I absolutely hate the OS itself; it's way too complicated to install anything not wrapped in a tidy little RPM package or run anything not installed by default, and it took over four hours for me to install the drivers for my two-year-old hardware on the newest release... and I still don't have audio! In order to get the sound to work, I have to patch the source code, rebuild the kernel with the sound module, and build the driver for the sound card... wtf? Aurgh!!!!! Sorry for the rant.
To conclude, I love Bill Gates.
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