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Weekly Microsoft Critical Security Issue
An anonymous reader sent in linkage to a zd story discussing the latest Windows Security Patches including an especially nice hole letting Java apps gain total control of your machine and assist you in reclaiming disk space by, say, reformating your drive.
"You know you are famous when you have your very own stalker [slashdot.org] "
I have like a dozen stalkers on slashbot.
Anyway, I'm assuming your post was a troll because I can't imagine anybody being stupid enough to really believe those claims.
"The Most Sophisticated File-sharing Application" is written in Java, and is a fairly good piece of desktop software...
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Do you really not mind running machines that are completely insecure?
Nice blanket statement. I don't know about any Windows box you've run, but I know for damn sure that nobody's getting into mine without permission.
It's just like any other OS...If you don't know what the hell you're doing, you're going to leave holes. If, on the other hand, you use common sense and take precautions, you'll be perfectly fine.
What is the continuing allure?
I think most of the allure comes from the fact that 95% of regular consumer software will ONLY run as it was meant to on a Windows platform. People want stuff they buy to work out of the box- not needing endless tweaking of WINE and such to run under a foreign OS.
You get ~100% of Windows games and applications like Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Office, etc. running flawlessly under Linux, and droves of people would switch.
Until then, don't act so suprised that the populace isn't running to reformat their drives.