by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday September 04, 2003 @11:27AM (#6869967)
Okay I see a lot of Microsoft apologists saying that "all software has bugs", "Linux has problems too", "dumb admins need to keep their machines up to date".. etc...
Let's see:
Linux written by volunteers and small companies.
Windows written by a company with tens of billions in the bank.
Linux used mostly on servers and installed by educated admins.
Windows used by everyone from grandma to the CEO.
Linux on a small percentage of servers.
Windows on 96% of machines (or whatever the figure is). Windows used in ATMs, in medical equipment, by the government, etc., etc. The Microsoft antitrust ruling was typed out on a Windows machine.
And given their resources, their cash, the number of frickin' PhD's on the payroll, and the fact that the entire world economy depends on Windows crap OS (yes even us folks who use Mac/BSD/Linux are still affected indirectly).. you gotta ask yourself.. is "similar to Linux" in terms of security problems the BEST they can do?
They have a huge responsibility, and they have chosen not to meet it. Why? Is it so that the government will pass software quality laws that will place a huge burden on Free software, thus weakining it or killing it off?
Or is it because people have their heads in the sand and refuse to acknowledge that Microsoft is not worth the time and money any more. That's probably it. People are sitting there constantly patching their Windows boxes and not realizing that, hey, maybe there are alternatives. Microsoft has you all by the nuts.
Why are you guys making excuses for Microsoft? Microsoft's products should be the most secure on the planet given their resources and abilities.
I used to think, hey, all computers have problems, but after using software like qmail and OpenBSD, I realized, Microsoft is doing about 1% of what they could do. Even just closing ports and making email attachments not be executable would solve a lot of problems. They need to make their software more secure.
Instead they come up with Palladium or whatever it's called now, a gigantic complex scheme to solve this problem (and a lot of other imaginary "problems" too). Can't they try some simple stuff first?
So don't apologize for Microsoft, don't say "well, if Linux was everywhere we'd have the same problems".. the problem today, right now, is Microsoft. The constant flood of pings to my machine are coming from microsoft machines. The viruses are coming from microsoft machines. When is it going to stop??
Hey! Patching Windows is *GOOD* (as in doubleplus) for the economy!
Just think of all the computer techs "steppin & fetchin" right now patching up all the M$ boxes around the world. Right now they are busier than Santa's elves on Christmas eve.
All that overtime is boosting the enconomy man! And as they drive around, they spread the wealth, from spending those big, fat paychecks on upgrading to Windows XP! And as they drive around patching systems, the stop and spend a dollar or two at McD's, a bag of C
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blame microsoft! (Score:3, Interesting)
Let's see:
Linux written by volunteers and small companies.
Windows written by a company with tens of billions in the bank.
Linux used mostly on servers and installed by educated admins.
Windows used by everyone from grandma to the CEO.
Linux on a small percentage of servers.
Windows on 96% of machines (or whatever the figure is). Windows used in ATMs, in medical equipment, by the government, etc., etc. The Microsoft antitrust ruling was typed out on a Windows machine.
And given their resources, their cash, the number of frickin' PhD's on the payroll, and the fact that the entire world economy depends on Windows crap OS (yes even us folks who use Mac/BSD/Linux are still affected indirectly)
They have a huge responsibility, and they have chosen not to meet it. Why? Is it so that the government will pass software quality laws that will place a huge burden on Free software, thus weakining it or killing it off?
Or is it because people have their heads in the sand and refuse to acknowledge that Microsoft is not worth the time and money any more. That's probably it. People are sitting there constantly patching their Windows boxes and not realizing that, hey, maybe there are alternatives. Microsoft has you all by the nuts.
Why are you guys making excuses for Microsoft? Microsoft's products should be the most secure on the planet given their resources and abilities.
I used to think, hey, all computers have problems, but after using software like qmail and OpenBSD, I realized, Microsoft is doing about 1% of what they could do. Even just closing ports and making email attachments not be executable would solve a lot of problems. They need to make their software more secure.
Instead they come up with Palladium or whatever it's called now, a gigantic complex scheme to solve this problem (and a lot of other imaginary "problems" too). Can't they try some simple stuff first?
So don't apologize for Microsoft, don't say "well, if Linux was everywhere we'd have the same problems"
Re:blame microsoft! (Score:2, Funny)
Patching Windows is *GOOD* (as in doubleplus) for the economy!
Just think of all the computer techs "steppin & fetchin" right now patching up all the M$ boxes around the world. Right now they are busier than Santa's elves on Christmas eve.
All that overtime is boosting the enconomy man!
And as they drive around, they spread the wealth, from spending those big, fat paychecks on upgrading to Windows XP! And as they drive around patching systems, the stop and spend a dollar or two at McD's, a bag of C