Is Windows a Virus?

No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:

- They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.

- Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that

- Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.

- Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh ... Windows does that, too.

- Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with Windows, too.

Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences: Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.

So Windows is not a virus.

It's a bug.

Um die hier↑ eingerahmte horizontale Linie darstellen zu lassen, schreibt die MSO-Automatik folgenden Code: 
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:DE;
mso-fareast-language:DE;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"></span>
<div align="center">
<hr SIZE="2" width="100%" align="center">
</div>
Notwendig wäre aber nur gewesen: <hr> (HTML) oder <hr /> (XHTML)

Würg! Micro$ofts stuff is completely rubbish.
[if gte mso] mso-spacerun: yes!!!!!!!

Noch'n Beispiel:

514≈510

Der HTML-Code dieser Zeile lautet: <p>514&asymp;510</p>. Um diesen weltbewegenden Sachverhalt darzustellen, developpt Micro$ofts $oftware folgenden Code: 
<p>
<span lang=DE style='font-family:Arial'>
Beispiel: 514 <sub><!--[if gte vml 1]>
<v:shapetype
 id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t"
 path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
 <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/>
 <v:formulas>
  <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/>
  <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/>
  <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/>
  <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/>
  <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/>
  <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/>
  <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/>
  <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/>
  <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/>
  <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/>
  <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/>
  <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/>
 </v:formulas>
 <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/>
 <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/>
</v:shapetype>
<v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:9.75pt;
 height:9.75pt' o:ole="">
 <v:imagedata src="Runden-Dateien/image001.wmz" o:title=""/>
</v:shape>
<![endif]-->
<![if !vml]><img alt="NR" width=13 height=13
src="Runden-Dateien/image002.gif" v:shapes="_x0000_i1025">
<![endif]></sub><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
 <o:OLEObject Type="Embed" ProgID="Equation.3" ShapeID="_x0000_i1025"
  DrawAspect="Content" ObjectID="_1129438382">
 </o:OLEObject>
</xml>
<![endif]-->
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> 
</span>510</span>
</p>
Frontpage

That's why Frontpage and the other Micro$oft stuff is giving the internet traffic a huge blow-up job. Cui bono?

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Übrigens: Was ist von einem Web-Browser zu halten, der jämmerlich zusammenbricht, wenn er eine Seite mit dem (ebenso falschen wie schlichten) HTML-Code darstellen soll: 
<html>
<form>
<input type crash>
</form>
</html>

Dass Micro$ofts IE nicht ein Witz, aber gefährlich-gefährdet ist im Gebrauch, kann man auch auf http://www.sztolnia.pl/hack/TrivialIECrash2/TrivialIECrash2.html in Erfahrung bringen.