Above I'm whining about laws that I think give Microsoft more of a hold over the market than they should have. It's not as if humanity is inherently incapable of having other companies making other operating systems that can run our hardware and software as well. I get a very strong feeling that there's some way in which their patent protections go too far somehow. Imagine if AMD's technique for reverse engineering an Intel processor had been declared illegal, the market for computer processors would not be as good. From what I can tell, I think the free market would welcome a company doing something similar with Windows, but maybe I'm worng about that and just whining . . . I don't think so. :)

Hmm, also, whining is often a good thing for customers to do if they want a better product. Producers are out to make things that customers want after all and should be concerned with pleasing them somewhere. Therefore, I don't think whining is totally out of place, with respect to Windows, so long as it is not unreasonable and has some redeeming value (entertainment at the very least).