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Microsoft a Weak Link In Possible Cyber War
climenole writes 'Microsoft has vast resources, literally billions of dollars in cash, or liquid assets reserves. Microsoft is an incredibly successful empire built on the premise of market dominance with low-quality goods,' says former White House advisor Richard Clarke in a recent book. Microsoft makes the list of risks because so many people have installed its software for critical systems.
I feel I should point out once again that if Apple or Linux was the #1 most popular with like a 75%+ market share, they'd be the horribly insecure ones that are getting hacked all the time. It's not about the product quality, it's about what thousands of foreign programmers are targetting because they're going to find a security hole eventually no matter what system it is.
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I don't think Microsoft makes low quality software, if fact, the market share that Microsoft owns it's because they make the best products, you can't deny that. I just bought a Windows 7 Ultimate license, i've been using it for some time now and i hadn't any problem, great performance, no malware infection. I've tried Ubuntu Linux 10.04, and it has drivers problems, it's quite hard to install some software (FlashPlayer for the 64 bits), it hangup a couple of times (which didn't happened at all with Windows). If other software were better than Microsoft's i think a lot of people had changed to it (specially to Linux since it's free and open source)
That's not a troll post. Slashdot users are just biased.
Even if his post is false, Windows is the most used operating system, therefore it's likely you will find the most vulnerabilities. The other OS's are niche markets, so clearly you will have less people attacking them.