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It's just the operating system that came with their new computer. The only other option naive computer users felt they had was Apple, and that cost more.

The first "real" operating system I used regularly was BSD, the University of California version of Unix. My first IBM compatible home computers ran DRDOS.

From Widows 3.1 to Windows 98SE, Microsoft was the only affordable option for leading edge graphical access to the World Wide Web. I went from Netscape to Opera and ignored Internet Explorer.

When the Linux version of Opera was released I quit using Microsoft products on my personal computers. I only use Microsoft or Apple products if someone is paying me. Linux was so similar to BSD it was like coming home again after a forced march through alien lands of tollgates, pitfalls, barbed wire fences, and no trespassing signs.

As is so often true, the average "consumer" is only offered the illusion of choice. Most people don't realize how many choices they actually have; that the don't have to be mere consumers.

France will be fine. They've got plenty of talented people who will make their computers do what they want to do and not what they don't want them to.