Why still keep on using Microsoft Products?

Because microsoft is also available FREE, but not legal.

Hi archon309! There are many reasons to do so. Linux is becoming more and more popular, but people mostly use their computers for applications made for Windows. I've never seen someone playing complex games on Linux (I believe the reason are lousy drivers for video cards which can't handle complex games). Official support is much better for Windows than for Linux, Linux may have superior user community, but official support is on the side of Microsoft. But you'll see, in couple of years Linux will take bigger part of the percentage. I believe that people have understood that if you only intend to use your PC for surfing, writing e-mails and some similar stuff like that you don't need something expensive like Windows, Office, etc. Actually, I'm trying to convince my father who has his own company to install Ubuntu and OpenOffice on his PCs, but he has an application that can't be run on Linux and he doesn't want Windows virtualization on Linux. Don't get me wrong, I didn't say that Linux is used for simple things... Most scientific research companies use Linux because of it's high customization. Ufff, long answer... :D I hope you understood my thoughts... Take care and happy mylotting!

I think people keep using Microsoft because it is easier for the everyday person to understand. I run Linux on my computer but I get frustrated with little issues that I never used to get with Windows and I do not know how to fix the problems. I cannot find answers either. Maybe these problems can be sorted easily when you know what you are doing, but I do not have that knowledge. Whenever I search for answers, I can only find answers that talk in a language that I do not understand! That being said, I used to get a lot of browsing problems with Windows which I never get now with Kubuntu. My wife's computer and our laptop both run Windows XP so if I need to do something that I cannot do on Kubuntu, then I go and do it on those computers instead of mine. It is annoying to switch computers, but not the end of the world.

Well i actually use both linux and windows as a dual boot on this pc. But i am a hardcore gamer so windows is the better option for me. But i do like linux if it got better game support it would be my main OS but until it does ill use windows.

Firstly I'm a web site designer and need to be able to see how my work will look in Windows as that's what most people use. Perhaps this is complicated by the fact that I do a lot of work with SVG so I need to know what browsers will support it and how well. I should be able to get Linux and Windows to both work on my computer. However I've never got this to work well. The last time I tried, I installed Limp but I when I tried booting it, I got an error message that made no sense. I emailed the creator (of Limp) and got a message basically saying that nobody else has this problem.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm a dedicated open-source user and would never go back to bloatware, um I mean Windows, but I do think that you need to be a fairly competent and/or confident user to get along with Linux. Even the most user-friendly distros tend to need *some* tweaking to get them to work right, and that often involves using the command line. The last couple of distros of Ubuntu have had quite a few issues, especially random freezes caused by media files, and I think that may have made a few who tried it out give up in frustration. And for software designed for windows, emulation can sometimes be unreliable. So it's not for everyone. On the other hand, I quite agree that there are many benefits to Linux. Despite having to deal with issues and every kernel update seeming to fix one thing but break another, I still appreciate the low cost and security, and as I can't afford a top-of-the-range PC, an OS that doesn't hog resources is wonderful. I even have a 10-year-old laptop which grinds to a halt under Windows but can still cope well with simple things web browsing and word processing under Xubuntu. I love the convenience af synaptic for getting new software.

its bcoz we are used to it already and its user-friendly...you can also get it free....just use your sources...hehehehehe....