Microsoft Products and Vista love thread and forum

[mynameismud]

Why in the sam hill would I use a security product from a corporation that cannot produce a secure OS and has a large list of Applications that are insecure by design?  Is this Microsofts form of job security?

[mungeclimber]

define insecure-
benchmarked standards too, if you please.

[mynameismud]

define insecure-

Outlook IE XLS ASP EXE etc
XP 2000 2003 ME 4.0 etc

[mynameismud]

If by chance a person wanted to argue that Windows is secure, then why is it a common practice at many IT shops to have a mandatory monthly reboot schedule, to add patches, only for hosts that run the Windows OS?  How can a department have a HA system when it has to be rebooted every month?  That is just crazy.

[mungeclimber]

patching is part of the secure lifecycle of any OS

doesn't apple run updates to their software when they get to be a target of the occasional attack?





what is "HA"?

[Brad Young]

All I know is that my Microsoft stock has been stagnant for years, while my Apple stock - whoa baby!!

Actually that's not all I know. I know that working on the Mac with Adobe software is a dream, and since I got my Mac I use our home PC less and less (but I'm still stuck with PC at work).

That's all. I will never join this thread again.

[mynameismud]

Not Monthly for Critical Fixes.

HA = High Availability

patching is part of the secure lifecycle of any OS

doesn't apple run updates to their software when they get to be a target of the occasional attack?

what is "HA"?

[Ubergoober]

Virtualize or DIE

[Ubergoober]

Cripes, can't there be a Microsoft vs Apple forum, aka closet geek "my OS's penis is bigger than your OS's" rant forum? Then munge and Mr Mud can poke and prod each others volatile memory until one of them dies a blue screen of death?

The OS is dead anyhow, JeOS through virtualization is the future. And MS is years behind VMware.

Now get back to climbing news and more direct attacks and humiliation!!