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IT Practice Within Microsoft
SilentChris writes "Good article over at CNet regarding Microsoft's internal IT practices. Some intriguing statements from the CIO, from the obvious ('It's an easy choice for me--to run Microsoft technology. We don't run Unix. We don't run Linux. We don't run Oracle.') to the not-so-obvious ('Our users are the admins of their machines. They can load whatever software they want on their machines, but we do audit the network continuously.') I wonder how much time is spent combatting spyware?"
Aha! So that's why longhorn is taking so many years to write..
feh. stuff.
"We don't run Linux....we run GNU/Linux"
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
users are the admins of their machines.
So even Microsoft has realized you can't do crap under a limited login in XP.
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
"Well Johnson, we found the latest build of Firefox on your machine and a copy of OpenOffice. Clear out your desk by noon"
The Linux boxes are not here. They are not anywhere. They are segfaulting in the parking lot as we speak. I must now inform you that you are too far from reality.
English is easier said than done.
Considering that "billg@microsoft.com" is hard-wired into quite a few tools for use with anonymous FTP ...
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
I'm an accountant for an insurance firm and I admin my own machine AND the dead rat mail/dns/webserver as well.
That's because all our "technical" people only know how to admin Microsloth products. If a couple of reboots doesn't fix it they re-install from scratch.