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Story: SP2 clashes with more than 40 programs

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For the anonymous US exec, MS didn't make DOS or the FAT file system that it used, they bought them. MS-DOS was originally named QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), and when Microsoft bought QDOS it was renamed MS-DOS.

And your sentence about Linux programmers wanting to show how good Linux is compared to Windows seems to imply that Linux programmers created viruses to do this.

And as for Microsoft making the Windows unsafe so that unsafe programs can run on it; stop smoking whatever it is that you're smoking, as it's seriously affecting your ability to think. Microsoft made Windows insecure by continually integrating programs into the kernel. Go to the Windows update site with a fresh install of Windows XP and you'll find a whole heap of patches that relate to IE vulnerabilities giving people control over the whole computer. With Microsoft, security has always been an afterthought next to things like profit and killing off the competition.

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