Public Service Announcement...

From Rixstep.com....

Remember: there are reputedly over 1,000,000 (one million) 'viruses' for Windows in the wild. 92 - 97% of all email traffic is spam generated by compromised Windows computers. Small and medium size businesses lose hundreds of millions of dollars each year because they run Windows. Identity theft is the biggest crime in the world today and it's because of Microsoft Windows. Every security expert in the world has advised against using Windows for years.

And you're going to seriously contemplate using it because someone at your school does or there are more games?

France, Germany, Australia warn against using Internet Explorer...

After the recent major, high level, totally organized hacking sessions against Google, Adobe and 3 dozen other US corporations, which were executed through vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows & Internet Explorer, the governments of France, Germany & now Australia have issued warnings to their citizenry to avoid using Microsoft Internet Explorer for any online use. The Australian... "Government says Microsoft has acknowledged all recent versions of the program are vulnerable".

Scary fucking shite.

Some quotes from Rixstep's Microsoft's War of Words

article:

All the wonderful (and humorous) things mentioned in Apple's 'Get a Mac' apps: most apply to any 'non-Windows' system. Apple, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Red Hat/Fedora, AIX - they all share the same things in common. Stability. Reliability. And above all: security.

The current War of Words isn't about Apple on the one side and Microsoft on the other. It's not about Ubuntu on the one side and Microsoft on the other. It's about everybody on the one side and Microsoft all alone on the other.

Microsoft: with their Windows, with their drive letters, with their system32, with that maze they call the Registry, with their crashes and hangs and malware outbreaks heard round the world, with their hopeless standalone architecture.

If you are still using Microsoft's Internet Explorer to surf the net then you really need to give your head a shake because you're just being stoopid to the Nth degree. Like knowingly driving a car downhill with no brakes or seatbelts stoopid.

Not to mention that you should really get off Windows all together. Ubuntu, Apple - both easy to use, install, maintain and tons of free software for both.

And just wait & watch the list of countries joining France, Germany & Australian grow.