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solo99Jun 2nd 2006 5:37PM
Cars manufacturers have an incentive to sell you a car that won't fall apart after 6 days of use, even if they sell you all the repairs you need from their dealer network, because after all, you can shy away from that particular manufacturer that wronged you and buy from a competitor.
Microsoft doesn't really have an incentive to give you a safe and secure OS because they also want to sell you the $50/year subscription to make the OS safe and secure. And it's not like there are competitors ready to sell you another OS compatible with the software that you already own.
This is helped by the fact that end users do not own any software, they buy a revokable license to use (with limitations) a company's software. And this software does not even come with any warranty of fitness or liability. mmm... the software industry has it really good.