Why is it, even when presented with hard facts people refuse to budge on there religion of OS worship?
While I recognize that linux isn’t the answer for everyone in every situation, I also recognise that the MicroSoft machine has a lot of short comings that are generally overlooked by the faithful.
Is having to not know as much really worth a system that crashes on a much more frequent basis than it’s Unix and Novell counterparts?
There is also the issue of security, and anyone that has ever spent at least five minutes at the SANS site would see that there is a much bigger turn around to getting exploits patched from MicroSoft than the *nix OS’s.
The difficulty of exploiting the *nix bugs is also much higher, as they do not have graphical script kiddie tools that can point and click their way into the system.
The Viruses and Spyware that runs rampant on the Admin by default Windows systems are out of control. This verses the restricted user the *nix run at which even if you DID run an infected file the WORST you would do is trash your home directory, not the whole system.
In the “Is MicroSoft at fault” discussion
https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=89&threadID=173751&messageID=1771497
there are actually a few people trying to say that first there isn’t a problem CREATED by SP2, and that if there is a problem it isn’t the fault of MicroSoft.
People really need to expect more from their OS vendors than they are getting now, and they also need to accept that this isn’t a religious issue it is a business tool. Get over it people.
No, this is NOT a *nix vs Windows flame war. This is just to get people to look and realize that MS isn’t always doing right by you.
