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Microsoft's Security Chief Says Windows Safer Than Linux
Kintaro:
Personally I think security has little to do with the operating system and more to do with the admin in charge. I could host a server on Windows NT 4.0 and still have it unbreakable - of course I would be running all services using cygwin, and as their own user. However because the Microsoft Filesystem and User Interface are backwards beyond all repair (I have a copy of longhorn 4047 but no key to use it :() I would never bother. Actually I am interested in getting Longhorn running on my lappy in VMware just for the soul purpose of packet sniffing it and seeing what gets sent to MS in it.
However several friends of mine have said "It seems you can no longer run pirate software on longhorn, so I know now eventually I will have to run Linux, because fuck paying for software"
The thing is with Linux is you don't require so much fucking third party software in the first place.
Kintaro:
Another point with these security flaw comparisons is that a lot of disto's ship with things like Postfix and Sendmail, a few different IMAPd's, vsftpd, proftpd, kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, stuff like that. Basically their are a lot more options, and in what I mentioned here is a scrape on the surface of them.
Aloone_Jonez:
I often think that Longhorn won't sell very well anyway, ee still use Win2k at work and college. But there again it probably will because MS will spread their usal BS marketing around and record sales will be reported. It all depends on how much shit people are prepaired to put up with.
Kintaro:
When Microsoft stop supporting Windows 2000, and stop supporting Windows XP a lot of people will start to have problems not running longhorn. Microsoft will do there usual to push this Operating System onto people. However the 15,000+ people who write under the GPL and other OSS licences will do there usual. I think when longhorn comes out it will be a hive of security holes.
Microsoft still have a lot to do on Longhorn, but who knows, they might run themselves bankrupt before blackcomb.
greatscot:
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Well, duh! What do you expect the chief of security for a rich corporation to say?
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