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Windows in 2020
sasha328 writes: "I came across this article on LA Times while I was reading the LinuxToday news site. It is very funny, and points out the in layman's language, the problem with homogeneity in computer OSes. Well worth reading."
Take a look at Microsoft's page, are there any security alerts? No. What are the most often compromized OSes, Debian (or Linux generally) or Windows (ME/NT/2k/XP)?
Besides, I guess most of the Debian Security Alerts are about vulnerabilities. They might be used for breaking in, but have not necessarely been used.
All you have to do is keep a "Pentium or better" running and you'll be able to load software on it to do everything that 90% of the population will ever need. Heck, some people are still going fine with C64s, Amigas and for all I know, Atari STs. I had an old 19MHz XT with 1 MB of EMS RAM that did pretty well.
I believe that the glut of existing, functioning, equipment will have more of an influence on the future than homoganisation of the available platforms.
Do you suck cock,too?
Regardless of how much I like Linux, i'd be lying if I said Microsoft hadn't come a long way
Stop pretending to be a "new wave" open source guy. Microsoft and the closed source have gone nowehere in the time it has taken for Linux to crush almost all competition (Windows, Solaris, AIX, VMS, etc).
Let's just hope that in 2020, most suckers who write on this messageboard will finally have converted to the one and only true OS, of a company that ROCKS: Windows.
Perhaps then, the communist GPL crap has finally been outlawed and people can live their daily lives again on the Internet using their Windows OS, without being bothered and stalked by a bunch of smelly RMS followers.