Any Windows user who can *find* someone to complain to, with even the
least hope of resolution, about virus & macro deliver in
Win9x/NT/Outlook/Exchange and the whole SHS/VBX/OCX debacle, is a user who
has an inside track. MS is reaping the harvest of unintended consequences
from too much enhancement of the OS & interface, to accomodate assumed
desires by users, and *real* desires by marketers and spammers, to
'enhance' our e-mail experience.
But as a grain of salt... Imagine Red Hat 6.2 as the basis for a desktop
replacement revolution. What interesting things could you do if users
started setting up their RH machines, with user 'root' as their
day-to-day signon?? Cute perl scripts running out of the root
mailbox? Privileged commands from executable html? What happens when a
decent Linux web browser implements XML sufficiently to permit executions
without the user recognizing it? Linux has at least as much opportunity
in it for cracking & hacking via mail, web, who knows? Before Linux
replaces Windows, it will get more robust security at the OS level. Or it
will just be another OS.
Oh, and the Linux development community is both more inspired, more
accessible, and more responsive. They may win.
Rick
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