[Ham-Computers] Microsoft Vista in the news

[Frank]

kd4e wrote:
>> I wonder if this is unique to Microsoft or if other
>> operating systems are effected.
> 
> It is a MS version(s) of windows specific flaw.
> 
> Same as always "Secure!  Stable!"  Crash and burn.
> 
> Isn't it amazing that one of the richest men in the 
> world, and his billion dollar corporation, cannot produce
> a decent piece of software?

Not amazing at all when you consider they have never, ever 
produced decent software.  ALL of the initial releases have 
been alpha releases.  They usually don't work right until 
the first or even third revision.

That is why they are rich.  They sell bad software, promise 
to fix it, and sell more.  The bad stuff automatically 
creates a market for the revisions and they get paid for both.

> 
> Gates has always been a better salesman than a coder.
>

I think he would do as well selling used cars.

>> I still run XP on one computer but it is completely
>> safe as it never connects to the internet. Regards,
>> Frank Kamp
> 
> You can always spend extra and buy virus protection!
>

Sure can but first I have to find the extra to spend. 
Besides I have an aversion to buying stuff to fix something 
I should not have bought in the first place.  I would rather 
dump it all and start over with something that works. Also, 
I don't know of anyone making virus protection software that 
I would trust.  I think being in the virus protection racket 
opens up a severe conflict of interest potential.

Besides, MS seems to be easily hacked even without the help 
of viruses.

> OR, you can switch to the Free and truly stable and 
> secure alternative, Linux.
> 
>

Yup, already did that.  Got Fedora 6 on the athlon and 
running Debian-Etch on two of the older machines.

Have also tried puppy live cd, freebsd, and mandrake (many 
moons ago).  I think of all of them the Debian release is 
probably the one I like best.


  :-)
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