Story: What the markets are telling Microsoft

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I suspect that the insensitivity of the market is because Microsoft is unaffected by security bugs. If the security bugs were in MS's Financial Dept, or online store, you'd see another level of response, I suspect. However, no matter how many and how severe the bugs in MSIE, there'll still be another 10 million MSIE users by year end... And the same goes for the OS. The only significant competitor, Linux, is still rather harder for the newbie to get to grips with (less support from stores, harder to install without a helpful friend, reduced hardware support - the pain of migrating is broadly equivalent to the pain of anti-spyware, anti-virus, and changed UI and applications - the major cost of conversion is staff training, not H/W, apps and OS, so there's no inbuilt pressure to change - until Linux or MacOS on Intel offers a clear employee performance benefit, the pressure to change will be low, and MS will continue to be unaffected by its level of attention to security)

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