“It’s official: don’t expect Microsoft to completely protect your network,” Dan Ilett reports for ZDNet. “‘We’ve all [with the exception of smarter and richer Mac users and other alternative OS users, that is] been part of the biggest beta test the world has ever known–Windows. Microsoft will not solve all of the security problems, no matter what the richest man in the world says,’ said Gartner vice president Victor Wheatman in a keynote speech at Gartner’s IT Security Summit on Monday.”
Full article here.
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Sh*t, they’re starting to figure it out…
richer?! gah! suddenly all mac users are rich.. hehe
Can someone tell Mastercard I’m rich? Cuz they don’t believe me..
Ah Ah Ah, The day is mine!!!
Naahh, not even a beta. It is just a proof of concept.
Too bad MS releases proofs of concepts only after Apple releases the finished product.
im a mac user and i’ve managed to make a good livin using apple macs : )
same can be said from all those companies offering windows it support!!!!
I am smarter and richer than the average Windows user.
Of course, the average Windows user lives in the third world, buys his Windows and Office CD’s for the equivalent of $2.00 US each and is not on the net.
So there is such a thing as a happy user of Microsoft products.
“Naahh, not even a beta. It is just a proof of concept.”
Or more likely “proof of no concept.”
thanks ndelc, that was funny.
I wonder when Microsoft will release the ‘stable’ version of Windows?
is anyone really surprised at this “revelation”??
Billy has been copying Mac ever since he backward-engineered OS 7…and put it atop DOS and called it “WinDoze”
Al:
What an incredible statistic, that the most secure and most satisfied users of Windows are those folks living in third world nations without significant internet access. It somewhat fitting that Windows works best in the under developed and impoverished areas of the world considering that Microsoft�s programs also lack development and exhibit a poverty of functionality and productivity.
Maybe when these countries progress from third world to least developed nations they will switch to Macs. And maybe when Microsoft develops a 64-bit OS with true WinFS (among other promised features) it, too, will graduate into the category of first world companies.
How about “proof of copying concept”
“What an incredible statistic, that the most secure and most satisfied users of Windows are those folks living in third world nations without significant internet access. It somewhat fitting that Windows works best in the under developed and impoverished areas of the world considering that Microsoft�s programs also lack development and exhibit a poverty of functionality and productivity.”
MS and Coke.. Top two brands in the world baby.. One dehydrates you and rots your teeth, the other gives you a headache.. YAHOO…
These two are so powerful in the 3rd world .. it’s nuts..
Actually MS just released a Windows Lite.. which offered the crappiest version of Windows Imaginable (no, it’s not ‘Me’).. it can only run one program (or virus) at a time.. and has 600×400 resolution I believe..
This is supposed to stop people from stealing the full version in China.
Snicker. But you can get tech support.
ROTFLMAO
Windows=biggest beta test
LOL
toooooo true
-paul
“the average Windows user lives in the third world”
That is an average third world thought.
All Mac owners are rich?? I guess that’s the same as John Kerry is only going to raise taxes on the rich too right? I’m glad they seem to think that anybody making over $30,000 a year is rich. Damn, I’ve been rich all this time and didn’t even know it.
As far as Macs go, the last time I checked, you can buy a new eMac for only $799. So no, you don’t have to be rich to buy a Mac, you just have to have an ounce of intelligence, that’s all.
“As far as Macs go, the last time I checked, you can buy a new eMac for only $799. So no, you don’t have to be rich to buy a Mac, you just have to have an ounce of intelligence, that’s all.”
Lance, an ounce of intelligence is considered wealth in the Windows world.
@Lance: I make about �16.000 a year and I am rich! Very rich! I have all I want and more. Don’t say you aren’t rich if you earn $30.000 a year. You haven’t seen enough of the world when you make a statement like that.
Windows a beta? I thought it was a virus program.
“…..Windows a beta? I thought it was a virus program…”
It is…. but dont let on to any PeeCeers !!
Ya know…. You can always tell a PeeCeer.. but
you can’t tell him much !
Kool-
I believe Lance was poking fun at the financial classifications used in the US.
Where you are considered wealthy if your Household income is
?$30K but in most metropolitan areas you have to earn double that just to get by.
Most people in the US don’t realize that they are in upper-middle or wealthy class.
Steve. Check the exchange rate on the Euro.
hagar.. i love it 😀
“biggest beta test the world has ever known”
I’m no lover of Microsoft but that’s way overstated. GM food is probably the world’s biggest beta test, or maybe the crap we throw in to our atmosphere that is changing what we breathe and what our weather does to us.
However whilst wiping a hard drive clean is quick and easy cleaning up the mess of food pollutipon and environmental pollution is rather more difficult.
Best Quote Ever!
“My Pc Will last longer than yours!”
Roflmao
McAfee today announced the 100,000th security threat for Windows.
Says it all really.