Smitty Two wrote:

The newsserver "msnews.microsoft.com" has maybe a thousand newsgroups
related to microsoft products. The one I find most useful is

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Several Microsoft developers participate in the group - though as
volunteers, not as official MS respondents.

Imagine that. A family of products so ****ty that it takes a thousand
newsgroups to keep the Big Lie alive.

As it turns out, there are about 2,760 newsgroups served by the microsoft
news server. Not all are intensely active, of course, but it takes that many
to service over a billion users.

Of course you're using a Mac (accounting for about 7% of the installed
computer customer base). Still, the Mac is more popular than various
versions of Linux which, at less than 1% of the market, no one will use if
even if it was given to them.

I suspect the main reason for the Mac's popularity not being down in the
Linux range is the fact that Microsoft wrote a substantial part of the Mac's
software.