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Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click
spacehug writes "In a recent Microsoft Knowledge Base article, they provide 'Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks.' These steps include always using SSL/TLS, typing 'JScript commands' in the address bar, and typing in URLs instead of clicking links! I have a suggestion that's not in the Knowledge Base: don't use IE!"
>Maybe the vast majority of them don't have the time and inclination to throw away all their programs and spend months learning to use lame F/OSS stuff that offers half the functionality, and only twice the inconvenience.
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So what did swearing off Microsoft entail?
We looked at all the alternatives. We looked at Apple, but that's owned in part by Microsoft. (Editor's note: Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple in 1997.) We just looked around. We looked at Sun's Sun Ray systems. We looked at a lot of things. And it just came back to Linux, and Red Hat in particular, was a good solution.
I know I saved $80,000 right away by going to open source, and each time something like (Windows) XP comes along, I save even more money because I don't have to buy new equipment to run the software.
One of the analysts said it costs $1,250 per person to change over to open source. It wasn't anywhere near that for us.
The other thing is that if you look at productivity. If you put a bunch of stuff on people's desktops they don't need to do their job, chances are they're going to use it. I don't have that problem. If all you need is word processing, that's all you're going to have on your desktop, a word processor. It's not going to have Paint or PowerPoint. I tell you what, our hits to eBay went down greatly when not everybody had a Web browser. For somebody whose job is filling out forms all day, invoicing and exporting, why do they need a Web browser? The idea that if you have 2,000 terminals they all have to have a Web browser, that's crazy. It just creates distractions.
>Here's a novel idea for you: when recommending a solution, how about thinking about what the victim _needs_, rather than just thinking about your religious duty to convert everyone to Linux?
For those of us atheists using linux, how does this fit in?
>This "thinking" stuff is hard.
You're right, it is. I mean, when you do it, you realize that you're wrong, don't you?
Or are you having trouble typing that link into your address bar?
Or perhaps you don't believe successful businessmen when they give you advice?
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Talking about Bill Gates losing stuff. Has anyone seen recent pictures of him -- he looks really worn and aged, and IMO like he is losing it.
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
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You might also notice that Opera doesn't have this problem, even thought *gasp* it's not Open Source. Go figure, eh?
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
Actually, you could just avoid starting a message with 'begin ' in _all lowercase_, followed by _exactly two spaces_. Dork.
~ Aero