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Sorry but the MS marketing argument won't work
Sorry, but you are clinging desperately to a Microsoft-centric PR view of OS security. Yes, I picked on web servers, an arena where MS have 21% market share and yet suffer nearly 100% of ALL associated exploits and attacks. So lets look at some other areas, shall we?

Safety critical - now there's bang for your buck. Do we hear with clockwork regularity about people dying, every week, every month, because safety critical systems have been breached? No. And the reason? Because Microsoft Windows has 0% - ZERO % - of the safety critical market. What about airport traffic control. Does it get hacked? No. Why? Because its not WIndows. What about nuclear process control. Does it get hacked, or worms, or virus, or spontaneously reboot after 48 days? No, because its not Microsoft. What about Amazon,does their business ever go offline, even for a minute? No, because they're running Linux. Contrast with Microsoft's software for bank cash machines, a regular feature in the UK is the blue screen of death in an ATM, why? Microsoft OS, of course!

There are computer science reasons why Microsoft is insecure *by design*, and all the marketing money in the world cannot stop those reasons from being true. Patches on patches on patches on patches, ad infinitum, may keep Microsoft's revenue flowing but it will NEVER solve the inhernet insecurities of Window's architectural design.

If you want the science behind these assertions then check out this whitepaper -

http://www.novell.com/collateral/4621433/4621433.pdf

Yes, it's produced by Novell, but facts are facts, and the collator of the facts does nothing to alter them.
Posted by: whisperycat   Posted on: 05/06/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Here's a question ...  worknman | 05/04/05
Step up MS  Richard Flude | 05/04/05
Duh, reply to story is the other button  Richard Flude | 05/04/05
You're making an assumption...  gfeier | 05/04/05
Not just an assumption  Richard Flude | 05/04/05
That leaves 66 %...  gfeier | 05/05/05
Absolutely right  ebrke | 05/05/05
To easy to avoid detection  voska | 05/05/05
MS Windows is the problem, it's insecure and flawed!  matrixdomain | 05/04/05
I tell ya, I'm going BACK to my Mac for online banking...  BitTwiddler | 05/05/05
B of A  Bill4 | 05/05/05
Blame the OS  bobiroc | 05/05/05
The myth that MS is attacked because its more popular  whisperycat | 05/05/05
The myth that MS is attacked because its more popular  whisperycat | 05/05/05
The Big Picture  bobiroc | 05/05/05
Sorry but the MS marketing argument won't work  whisperycat | 05/06/05
No!  bobiroc | 05/06/05
Now if I was a scammer ...  George Mitchell | 05/05/05
Guys like you give Linux a bad name  Squawkbox | 05/05/05
Thanks for another unbiased post  I_am_hellion_z | 05/05/05
What we need to do!  chalkbd@... | 05/05/05
Not to worry  nucrash | 05/05/05
3.0 Mike Cox I am not.  nucrash | 05/05/05
Don't be so hard on yourself  Michael Kelly | 05/05/05
Not A Problem At Our Organization  itanalyst | 05/05/05
7.5 for the rookie  luke_sg | 05/05/05
If this ever becomes a problem with Linux ...  George Mitchell | 05/05/05
you wish because you don't know  matrixdomain | 05/05/05
MS is to blame b/c they have done nothing to fix the probs!  kbeartxzd | 05/05/05
Linux isn't exactly innocent  severian@... | 05/06/05
really?  matrixdomain | 05/06/05
you are a fraud  matrixdomain | 05/06/05
we are waiting .....  matrixdomain | 05/06/05

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