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Robert Citek wrote: | | <quote> | As I look at how Microsoft is changing to address the Linux threat, one | that may actually turn out to be no more real then Netscape's was, I | can't help but see how Microsoft has dramatically benefited from it -- | and much more broadly so than they did from the rise of Netscape. | </quote> | | http://www.technewsworld.com/story/42229.html
Yeah, I'm thinking about writing a response to this. While this guy accuses the OS community of living in la-la land (my words) he is doing the same with statments referring to Microsoft products
"The products are vastly more secure and are wrapped with an infrastructure of services that makes them much harder to penetrate and vastly more capable."
Who on this lists thinks MS products are MUCH more secure than a few years ago? a little, yes . . . but much?
XPSP2 only recently added a usuable firewall and encourages users to turn it on--which is a step that Most Linux vendors are not even taking ~ BUT EVERY ACCOUNT IS still created as an administrator. HOw is this any different from win9x. Just because people could turn off the admin rights doesn't mean they will. In fact, they wont. Partly because you have to BE admin to run half the legacy apps.
Then you have the CEO of Linspire saying that running as root DOESNT MATTER because your data is what's important. This shows obvious IGNORANCE of the root of the HUGE viral problem that is plauging the Windows desktops.
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