“But the company says most users don’t take full advantage of those products.”

And why should they? Considering the amount of time I must spend plugging up the security breaches that microcrap refuses to fix problems they themselves created (some high risk vulnerabilities still haven’t been fixed YEARS later) why would I trust IE to protect me from virii, trojans, activeX and other malicious code when browsing the net? Why should I trust microcraps “firewall” when it wasn’t monitoring outgoing connections? Why should I when microsuck makes the default admin account on XP brute force attackable and makes it impossible to get the fix for free on its site? How is buying more companies and charging more fees actually going to fix problems in the operating system when they don’t bother dealing with those first?

hmm … think its finally time to switch to Linux

Perhaps they should call it “MS BlackHandCare”.

I’m sure MS would charge for security updates right now if they thought they could get away with it. Come to think of it, that’s basically what they are doing with BlackHandCare…

sounds a little bit “cosa nostra” to me.