Define expensive.
If expensive is getting a full featured OS that is easy to use and install with support and a cost structure that has actually decreased over the years, then perhaps you are right. Perhaps we should just eleminate the hundreds of thousand of jobs supported by this evil company and allow the wild west to ensue with an OS with a thousand different flavors and wild programs while scratching your head and wondering what you did wrong installing it because it wouldnt mount your drive, yeah thats the future. You can play crippled games on this new OS, no need to use the full features of the Video Card that was designed for that other OS, that is of course if you were lucky enough to choose a good version of this OS.
Full featured?
More like full of buggs persistently for a long time. And that's not counting security flaws.
I can't think of a single year (out of what--10+?) as a faithful Microslop customer when I haven't been exasprated to the max every few weeks to every few months.
Most of the time there has been no viable solution and certainly not one within any reasonable cost constraints. Usually I just had to give up and come up with some convoluted enormously time wasting work around on my own.
Oh, when I've been able to spring for their expensive tech help--it's usually been competent and helpful. Though the India accent thing at a rapid fire rate on a pooor phone connection bout did me in once.
And their compulsion to gum up the works of 3rd party software vendors is really infuriating, morally outrageous, actually.
I have no need to destroy Microslop. I just want them to clean up their act. Give the customer more of a fair value and better support for their money.
They could have a LOT better automated support than they do. a LOT better.
No excuse for not having it, imho.
That's a broken windows fallacy. That Windows, due to its difficult nature, creates thousands of jobs is not necessarily a good thing.