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Old September 3rd, 2003, 04:52 PM
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Is it time to abandon Microsoft products?
Earlier it was just about flaws in Windows IIS servers. Then it trickled down to Windows servers, then to Microsfot Outlook (so many email viruses) and then to PC versions like Windows98, Windows ME, Windows XP, etc.

Now its down to Visual Basic and other popular applications.

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Old September 3rd, 2003, 04:58 PM
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Hard to replace ......Think of all the AOL users who are self trained on windows .......will they migrate to KDE .....how many ISPs support Linux for dial up and DSL connections .......It requires a nerd to setup DSL on a linux box .......Most of the nerds are already on Linux anyways .....Its the layman that will not move from windows cause Linux scares them ......Lindows http://www.lindows.com is a beginning .....but gates is well entrenched with Office applications and windows
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Hard to replace ......Think of all the AOL users who are self trained on windows .......will they migrate to KDE .....how many ISPs support Linux for dial up and DSL connections .......It requires a nerd to setup DSL on a linux box .......Most of the nerds are already on Linux anyways .....Its the layman that will not move from windows cause Linux scares them ......Lindows http://www.lindows.com is a beginning .....but gates is well entrenched with Office applications and windows
I am not against Windows or Windows apps. Hey I made money via wages working on MS products.

What I am upset about is that Microsoft programmers were so careless in their coding! Why did they not take more care? Why did the QA team not detect these flaws? Why did they not hire hackers to find holes in their products?

Our company has some employees whose only job is to find holes in our products so that they can be fixed before a customer gets hosed!
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Old September 3rd, 2003, 05:12 PM
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I am not against Windows or Windows apps. Hey I made money via wages working on MS products.

What I am upset about is that Microsoft programmers were so careless in their coding! Why did they not take more care? Why did the QA team not detect these flaws? Why did they not hire hackers to find holes in their products?

Our company has some employees whose only job is to find holes in our products so that they can be fixed before a customer gets hosed!
They're not careless .....The problem is the millions of lines of bloated code ........introduce a feature and it breaks something somewhere ......hard to test and maintain ..........Compare with linux which is straightforward C code .....no VC++
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agree 100% with parshu.

Impossible to test for such hacking activities.
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But MS
owes it to customers to re-write parts of legacy code which could be causing these problems.

We have rewritten major parts of code to plug holes.

MS also has a big budget and they should invest more in creating secure code.
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Linux is tough to setup for DSL etc.

which company DSL are u having trouble connecting to using Linux. Please let me know
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Linux is tough to setup for DSL etc.

which company DSL are u having trouble connecting to using Linux. Please let me know
Not me buddy ............Think of the other poor souls who are not in the tech industry like you and me ........
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It is hard to ignore Microsoft products like Pepsi.....!!!!!!
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no man
that is what i was saying. I installed redhat 9.0 recently for my friend and it detected its version DSL automatically.

I was actually surprised.
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