[hilbert42]

Microsoft is effectively a monopoly, to say it's anything else and that other browsers are available is a nonsense for reasons that everyone knows.

Appealing to reason is a waste of time as no big monopolistic corporation will willingly forfeit money. The only realistic (effective) solution is legislative. I don't see that happening anytime soon in the US but perhaps it's possible in other jurisdictions (more likely now that the US is no longer the flavor of the month with many).

[globalnode]

the other "realistic" solution is to use another o/s.

[hilbert42]

For the cognoscenti it is—like Linux, but for the vast majority it's not. If you've ever run an IT department in a large operation (which I have) then you'd never say that.

People insist on Windows at work because it's so ubiquitous, when they go home their modus operandi doesn't have to change.

Forcing workers to change OSes against their will only puts one's job on the line (management will side with workers as it's the path of least resistance). QED.