Not only is this commercial hilarious, it’s true. Microsoft is constantly releasing new and improved operating systems that promise to be so much better than the last new and improved operating system, only they never are. If you are running a machine with a Microsoft OS installed, you are also running an anti-virus program. If you’re not, you most likely have either a virus or some other malicious piece of code running around with all the other ones and zeroes on your computer. That’s something you wouldn’t have to do if Microsoft produced a better operating system, a working operating system.

They don’t do that. Instead, third-party companies like McAfee and Symantec make millions patching holes and guarding against security risks made possible because of Microsoft’s incompetence and ineptitude. That’s OK though because most computers come with a Microsoft operating system already installed. If they use a computer where they work, it too most likely runs a Microsoft operating system. That’s just the way things are. Because most computers run a Microsoft operating system, software developers produce software that can be run on a Microsoft operating system. Not because it’s a better OS, but because it’s by far the most common.

This ensures that Microsoft will always be the dominate operating system. The last operating system I ever purchased was Windows 95. It will be the last operating system I ever purchase. If I were to ever install a different OS on my main PC, it wouldn’t be a Microsoft product, it would be Linux. That’s what I did with my notebook PC and I really love it. Unfortunately, there are a few programs (OK, games) I enjoy using that I cannot run on my notebook because they are made exclusively for the a Microsoft OS. I wish that weren’t the case, but it is.