I think that John Dvorak hit the nail on the head about M$ in his article, "What Microsoft Antivirus Software?" available on Yahoo's "Technology-ZDNet", or, directly entering the URL:
//dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20011206/tc/ what_microsoft_antivirus_software_1.html (The above URL to be entered as one continuous line, of course. Anything this long I am not responsible for typos, errors or omissions.) Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona USA Sam Ewalt wrote: . > Hardly anyone ever *decides* to use Microsoft products. BG's . > commercial genius is that he has removed enduser decision . > making from the software equation. . > Microsoft's prime customer has always been the computer manufacturer. . > Most computers sold at retail just come set up with Microsoft. The . > advertising is just frosting on a cake that has already been sold. . > It reinforces the inevitable and makes it seem like the only "choice". . > It's just easier to go with the flow because it "comes that way". . > Sam Ewalt