M$ encourages idiocy

Yeah, M$ still manages to get away with "bundling" their buggy OS on new computers, despite many court cases aimed at ending this anti-competitive practice.

As you say, M$ discourages its users from thinking about their computer usage to such an extent that they become virtual zombies who can't think outside the M$ envelope.

A bright young fellow asked to use my computer to make a word document, the other day I told him he'd have no trouble using Open Office because everything was pretty much the same as his M$-Word.

But he did have trouble.

"There's lots more on this than Word's got" - he must of had a bare-bones "student edition".

So, a few additional features were enough to stop a M$-created idiot from using a simple word processing application.

Pity help them, M$ won't.