Isn't it lovely how Ed Bott always tries to spin everything into something favorable to Microsoft?<p>In the same page, he says "microscopic percentage of the PC market that uses Linux" and "A non-trivial percentage of PC buyers will want to replace the installed operating system with either an older Windows version or an alternate operating system (like Linux)".
This is dumb. It's all about controlling your products that you own, and locking out the competition. Windows is a security disaster, and it doesn't matter how much duct tape and staples they load up on, it's still an insecure piece of junk.