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Why UNIX is better than Windows... By Microsoft
BenBenBen writes "According to a whitepaper found on "a fairly insecure server", UNIX not only is more reliable and easier to maintain than Windows (2000 in this case), it's cheaper too. These shock results are reported on both The Register and (the source) Security Office."
may have insecure server products(and desktop products for that matter) but whatever Security Office was running is nothing more than a smoking pile of silicon and hard drive.
There has been one hour and 46 minutes since the last MS critical article was posted. You need to wait at least two hours.
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
I realized after I hit submit that I was thinking by the old rules -- I should have asked whether pilfering documents from their server wasn't punishable by a federal death penalty by now. (I wish that was entirely a joke.)
Also, isn't the paper just the opinion of the writer, and dismissable by MS like the tobacco industry dismissed the memo by one of its ad exec mapping out marketing cigarettes to children. They would never do such a thing, no.
That MS has one honest soul in its ranks shouldn't be all that much of a shocker, right? Oops, I guess that was a troll.
> Wouldn't it be neat if MS put out a fully
> reliable, configurable, cheap O/S?
Yeah, they could call it MS/Linux.
SecurityOffice.net is in Turkey. We've probably slashdotted the entire country's bandwidth.
...phil
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Ugh... the Submit button needs to be placed farther away from the Preview button (*covers head with brown paper bag*).
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Agreed - most likely, it's just some guy with a 28K modem who's got a dedicated phone line. Sometimes, his mom picks up the wrong line and the whole site goes down.
Yeah, but what if they sent chocolates and hookers to you?
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So that new benz I just bought ISN'T going to run UT2003 faster? DAMN IT!!!!!!!!
Nope, not the death penalty.
A special clause on page 394 of the enacting legislation says that anyone convicted of publishing Microsoft's dirty laundy is enjoined from using any other operating system for life. It's Microsoft only, baby!
Repeat offenders are enjoined from using any operating system other than Windows ME.
And for the hard-core cases... they bring out BOB.
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No, but it will bring GTA3 to a whole new level.
Hopefully, they remembered to turn off auto-correct and "smart" quotes.
And now we understand the origin of all the MS security holes.
Clippy: It looks like you're trying to copy an unchecked buffer, would you like help with this feature?...
Noooooooo! Now you've spawned a whole new generation of bad jokes...
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I don't think that I would accept a hooker from Microsoft. My guess is that she would have a virus.
Chocolate, on the other hand...