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For one, if it wasn't for the Windows platform, it would be for another platform"
But it IS the Windows platform, because Window dominates computer installations on the planet by far, ad Apple doesn't.
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But the fallacy comes in the admin jobs"
Most jobs created by Windows are not in admin jobs We have millions of sales marketing, programming, application development jobs, teaching, training etc jobs created by Windows, not to talk of the hundreds of millions that use Microsoft Office on Windows and make living that way.
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Microsoft products take more people to administer them than others, a LOT more. "
Nonsense.
In fact Microsoft products like Word, Excel, Access, SQL Server, exchange Wrver are amongst the best, if not the best on the planet, and Windows Server trumps Linux in costs of administration easy:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/facts/default.mspx You are still talking nonsense.
Most jobs created by Windows are not in admin jobs But a percentage of the millions that are end up being part of the broken window fallacy. It will be hard to get an IT department to admit that because getting a system that's easier to maintain makes empire building kind of difficult.
Windows Server trumps Linux in costs of administration easy: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/facts/default.mspx
You gotta be kidding me. You're trusting vendor hype? I don't suppose virus/adware/security was factored into that? I also wonder what the total productivity loss due to the Vista UAC will be when hundreds of millions of people are clicking on a billion needless dialogs daily.