Don't worry about using Windows. It's sometimes a necessary evil. I've been forced to use Windows (mind you W7, wouldn't touch W8 or 8.1 with a poking stick while wearing a hazmat suit lol) this week, for the first time in 1.5 years. It's an ordeal, but I've negotiated a huge terror fee lol.
My problem with Windows is that it's sad that Microsoft gets away with such crap. Microsoft is capable of much better software than that, but they don't have to because people are dumb enough to keep giving them money for the spyware archaic broken crap it is.
Microsoft - through the acquisition of Nokia - has between 100 and 200 patents that are relevant on Android devices. Those are mainly Nokia mobile phone patents, there is only the FAT32 Microsoft patent basically. As a consequence, Microsoft gets a lot of money from Android phones through the Nokia patents for the phone functionality, but gets nearly nothing from Android tablets because they have no phone functionality. That's why Microsoft only makes MS-Office for Android available for Android phones, and not for tablets. Not that MS-Office for Android is such a great software, it's like MS-Office for Mac, not even compatible with MS-Office for Windows in all aspects, in fact, LibreOffice and Kingsoft Office are more compatible with MS-Office for Windows files than MS-Office for Android and Mac, but hey, people buy it.
I've mentioned before that I work with Microsoft products and services. Some of those are really good. The reason why I use such strong language against Windows is obviously to compensate for the strong lies that Microsoft permits itself all the time to con the consumers. I've also mentioned before that I like Microsoft's attitude towards non-US civil rights more than for example Google's or Facebook's or Apple's, which are much worse than Microsoft in many aspects, and in the end, they all pay Microsoft just to be able to exist.
I don't agree with the patent system, and a recent judgment in the US (of all places) has underlined the fact that there is a growing awareness that the US patent system needs to be revised to make room for real innovation and fair business models, but I'm also for respecting the law, so right now, I think that people should in the first place adapt their habits and make themselves less dependent on patent-wielding US corporations, instead of breaking the law by pirating software and stuff like that, because that only fuels the corporate blitzkrieg against the consumers. If nobody that knows that there are alternatives speaks up and promotes the (often much better) alternatives, that would be very sad in my opinion. Why would anyone refrain him/herself from strong comments against the very instruments that block innovation.
To once again put it in the words of Adam Curry: "Is that what the technological revolution has come to... Netflix and Facebook?".
I would WANT to see new innovative products coming out of Microsoft, I would want Microsoft to pay correct wages to developers, and not squeeze them dry like lemons and then throw them away, I would want Microsoft to do what it is capable of, namely delivering great innovative software. They just don't, because they don't have to. Linux is always a work in progress, and always has to try and keep up despite industry boycotts, yet it has evolved to be much more capable than Windows. Do you think that's normal? That free and open source software spearheads innovation? Without reasonable budgets? With volunteer developers? Let me tell you, the state the software industry is in now, that's not what we all pay Microsoft and Adobe and game studios for! It's a fucking disgrace! And I believe that it needs to be said, shouted, repeated, etc... until they change it.