The last two months have been quite interesting in Windows-land. A quick perusal of PCWorld.com for the past two months turns up the following:
– 28-May-2003: Microsoft Pulls XP Security Update – Software glitch caused some Internet connections to fail.
– 29-May-2003: Microsoft Patches Two Software Flaws – Security holes found in IIS, Windows Media Services.
– 29-May-2003: Microsoft Tries to Clean Its Code – New team hopes to create software with fewer flaws.
– 04-Jun-2003: Microsoft Vows to Fix Patch Problems – A simpler system for fixing security flaws is coming, company says.
– 25-Jun-2003: A Big Microsoft Mess–Patches Gone Bad – The company now says that XP performance issues don’t warrant a remedy.
– 25-Jun-2003: Microsoft Warns of Windows Media Flaws – New security threats affect Windows Media Services, Media Player 9.
– 09-Jul-2003: Microsoft Patches ‘Critical’ Windows Hole – Flaw leaves all versions of Windows open to Web-based attack.
– 16-Jul-2003: Three New Windows Flaws Reported – Microsoft urges users to patch new vulnerabilities in all versions of OS.
– 24-Jul-2003: Microsoft Warns of Critical Windows Flaw – DirectX bugs could allow attacker to take over your PC.
And the latest PC World article, 29-Jul-2003: “Exploit Code Posted for Windows Hole – Hackers could use the code to create mass-mailing worms” can be found here.
More information and links for each of the articles listed above are here.
“Nothing about Windows is simpler than the Mac, except maybe finding software in Office Depot.”
and then mostly crappy software.
George-
Tell us how you know that Mac OSX has just as many bugs? How much time have you used the product? How many C Programs have you written with your compiler that comes with the OS? FYI the Mac OS comes with the GNU compiler installed. Does Windows? In fact does it have Java? I bet you had to install the SDK yourself.
Sounds to me like you have eaten so much crap from Redmond all these years that you have a FUD sandwich for lunch. While you are out eating your lunch drop by a CompUSA and check out the Mac OS X machines. I tried and changed. No more hassles with FUD but I now have FUN with my computer experience. Best of luck on the FUD sandwich buddy…
” If the reason why people don’t switch from Intel/AMD machines to Macs is because fear of the unknown, why is the traditional Macintosh user base in business switching to Intel/AMD machines in such large numbers? They would seem to know that there is a “better” solution out there, but they are choosing to move away from it to Linux or Windows.”
Well, how about how the system perpetuate itself? Consider that many migrations from Mac to PC in business and education are fought by users, but nevertheless forced by IT people who are MSE certified and knows nothing else about Mac OS X, who have to recover all those expensive exam fees and all the time spent studying them, who do not really care about Total Cost of Ownership and only erronously infer that standardized computers are cheaper to maintain even though one virus/worm/trojan horse attack will destroy all (see, diversity is good, just like in biological systems). And oh, without as many problems, how many people in the IT department is needed? Self-preservation is areally a good thing, no?
Don’t believe that? Well, there is never a study about that, but anecdotes support that theory. I mean, how smart are you to turn down $43K in free brand new Macs and instead getting free junked PC from Boeing and paid $3K for printers? And this was in a poor school district where $ can be used for other important things.
http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/135864
Hey George, cockroaches outnumbers human by the gazillion. Are you to argue that cockroaches are better than human? Quantity does not imply quality!!
“Every operating system has issues”
Talk about stating the obvious like the Pope is Catholic. It is not about having issues, but how severe are these issues? How many of them? What is being done about them? Why people put up with inferior OS? Etc. By all counts, Windows is a piece of crap. Simple as that. No FUD, nothing. Just plain facts.