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Worms Jack Up the Total Cost of Windows
rbrandis writes "Dealing with widespread worms like Sasser raises the cost of using Windows, a research analyst said Wednesday. "This is part of the carrying cost of using Windows," said Mark Nicolett, research director at Gartner. "The cost of a Windows environment has gone up because enterprises have to install security patches very rapidly, deal with outages caused by secondary problems with these patches, and deploy additional layers of security technology." "The Sasser worm attacks confirm our prediction that mass worm attacks against the multiple vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft on April 13 were likely," said Nicolett and his Gartner colleague, John Pescatore, in an alert posted on the Gartner site."
I'm switching back to the Commodore 64.
The TCO for Windows for the vast majority of slashdotters however is still steady and holding at "free".
;-)
I keed, I keed!
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
I thought dealing with these Windows consistencies saved money!
;-)
It's nice to know that it took an industry analyst to tell us this.
Like my Pappy says..."Never bitch about the guy who signs your paycheck."
HEY! We'll have none of that logic around here! Now go away and let us get back to our mindless Windows-bashing!
Scientists confirmed today that water is indeed wet, Abraham Lincoin is dead, and the earth is round.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
apt does the job alright.
Black holes were created when god tried to divide by zero
What will these analysts discover next?
I've been hearing rumors that MS products cost more than the open source alternatives too. But it's just a rumor...
"Fate favors the bold"
...from his SNL Weekend Update days:
"This, and many other fine articles are available in the current issue of Duh! magazine."
It only raises your TCO if you connect a Windows computer to a network.
No surprise. They do the same thing to pork.
Thank you, drive through.
(please mod -1, nasty-ass wormy pork reference)
In your institution have an Coherence 101 course? :)
what next news flash, there is Oxygen in the atmosphere?
"Press release from Linux company disagrees with statements made by SCO."
"RIAA sues copyright infringers"
"Government agency monitors communications"
and "Microsoft press release claims Windows is really good."
So SP2 is going to include a Microsoft add-on that monitors third-party add-on's that monitor the Microsoft OS.
Who said these guys didn't know how to design an OS?
Predicting that multiple recently announced security flaws in windows will be exploited is like predicting the sun won't explode tomorrow.
-- I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. It's not my fault that life sucks so much. --
. . . activate your WinXP software firewall . . .
So, when does the worm that exploits the security flaws in the WinXP firewall and/or Windows Update get released?
What those who want activist courts fear is rule by the people.
Windows XP Pro for 200 systems: $30,000
Anti-Virus Software for Windows XP corporate: $7000
The billing rate for 10 contractors to come out and clean your systems: 700$/hour
Seeing the face of your CEO when you tell him linux is free: Priceless
There are some things money is wasted on, for everything else there is linux.
If you consider worms and virii as "free software that downloads itself off the internet" then the TCO for Windows goes down!
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Total Cost of being 0wnzed
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
* The CAT / MR scanners at a Danish hospital
Obviously, if they wanted to scan something they should have used grep instead of cat.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Here's the URL's to some other updates that'll "patch" things up:
Enjoy!
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.
Maybe we should try to get all of these hackers laid. They won't have all winter to write these nasty viruses, worms, etc. if they are busy gettin' some!
(Insensitive Clod Disclaimer) That assumes that they are all male...
There are lies, damned lies and TCO numbers.
A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
I ordered this CD almost two months ago!!! It still hasn't arrived. Perhaps they are delalying roll-out until they can include all security fixes???
A liability?
TCL.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
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Dawn of the Dead
...of problems with libc versions?
You have no excuse to steal Windows.
Nobody "stole" Windows(unless they lifted the actual disk). They're just using a copy.
What?
Dealing with burglars puts up the cost of Windows. I need to spend extra on secure frames, locks, sacrificial edgings, insurance policies ...
I know! I'll just stop using Windows, and brick up the holes! That'll make my life better won't it!