He did not say an "illiterate person" he said a "computer illiterate" as in "illiterate" in the use of "computers." There is a big difference.
The most intelligent person in the world can be "computer illiterate" if he's never used a computer in his life.
Well, there is a mechanism available to notify users of these updates, but I'm guessing MS is not that interested in handing over 30% of their price.
Yes, they think it's better to hand over 50%, or more, selling through retail. I think you'll find that future versions of Office for the Mac will be App Store apps going forward.
Actually, Office has had a mechanism to notify users of available updates since at least Office 2004 which was the last version of Office I used. Personally I find iWork for the Mac a much better office suite than MS Office. MS Office may be slightly more powerful in some of it's capabilities but it is archaic.
BEST RETORT EVAR!
If you ever visited Canada in the winter you’d know that snow IS an weapon of mass destruction.
I don't even think he understands the significance of your "Woosh!" comment. I think you should spell it out for him before his head explodes.
The point was that there is a huge third-party market of add-ons for iOS devices that dwarfs the practically non-existent one for Android devices. Each platform has its strengths.
And he spit in the peanut bowl.
No, you are a Microsoft IT admin in a library who knows nothing about Macs.
What do you think Mac OS X Server does?
Sigh, I was wondering how long it would take for this thread to deteriorate to this. It didn't take long at all.
Why hasn't Apple been caring about security for these past 10 years?
Yes, because as we all know, during the past 10 years Apple hasn't issued a single security patch nor have they implemented any security measures what so ever such as ASLR, DEP, or application sandboxing etc.
You know, just because you post it on slashdot doesn't make it true.
Just about every patch cycle from apple sees more security vulnerabilities patches than are found in all MS products combined in a year.
Although this is patently false, all this proves is that Apple is better at discovering and patching vulnerabilities than Microsoft is. The total number of vulnerabilities in an OS at any one time is an unknowable figure. For all we know there are thousands of vulnerabilities in Windows and only hundreds in Mac OS. If that were the case then the fewer number of vulnerabilities found and patched by Microsoft each month would only prove that many vulnerabilities remain un-patched and the many number of vulnerabilities found and patched by Apple means that fewer vulnerabilities remain un-patched.
Therefore, because of the fact the actual total number of vulnerabilities is unknown in any one system, your metric of measurement is meaningless.
Apple has been insisting for years that OSX has zero viruses.
This is wrong. Stop spreading this myth. Apple has NEVER made any such claim. Please show me where Apple makes a claim that OS X has zero viruses.
You really need to do more research on IPv6
First of all, forget about NAT. There is no NAT with IPv6. NAT was a kludge to fix the problem of IPv4 addresses that actually ran out long ago.
As for VPNs, you can still have a router at the border of your network that blocks all inbound traffic to all but the services/ports that are statically routed to pass-through. The rest can be handled by a VPN if that's what you want to do.
Please tell, what's wrong with the Windows firewall, it works doesn't it? Unless you know something the rest of us don't.
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