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| prezbedard 2003-09-26, 10:57 am |
| While I don't agree with some aspects of microsoft I can't put his on them. People have become too reliant on computers. They put them on and expect they will do everything. Computers are similar to cars and humans every so often they need a tune up or check up. | |
| Tarzanboy 2003-09-27, 5:22 pm |
| Microsoft bashing apparently is in season, whether people know what they are talking about or not. There are 2 things that caught my attention as to the idiocy of the authors of the report:
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Authors of the report published by CCIA argue that more-stringent measures are needed. One possible cure for the alleged ills of the Microsoft monoculture, they suggest, is for governments to require that no operating system represent more than half of the installed base in a critical industry.
Uh yeah, people don't keep up-to-date with patches put out by a vendor that supplies them with a method of getting them free, usually months ahead of a vulnerability, yet the industry is to be regulated by the government to use items which are patched much less vocally and have issues which are not broadcast as openly.
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Authors of the CCIA-published report were skeptical of such fixes. Currently, they estimated, Microsoft sends an average of one new mandatory patch every six days. Few home users, they said, could be expected to keep up.
Are they including all of the products in general and all patches issued? Last I checked with Win2k and XP Pro, the Critical Updates are not nearly that high.
Cheers,
TB | |
| Tarzanboy 2003-09-27, 11:15 pm |
| As a side note, @stake, fired its CTO supposedly about the CIAA article.
Here is another
interesting read, regardless of what side of the Microsoft fence you sit.
As a side note,
Cheers,
TB | |
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| I think both, we have a lot of stupid users and business objective error.
We want this and that, no business man will turn down the opportunity to make money. And no stupid user will turn donw the easy way to finish work |
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