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| Time: 07:15 EST/12:15 GMT | News Source: PC World | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Richard Stiennon: After all these years I am willing to admit that Microsoft has won the desktop and server wars. Thanks to VMWare Windows is spreading throughout the datacenter. And, of course, there is only one operating system to use if you are dependent on Microsoft apps like Outlook, Word, and Excel. While I have joined the chorus of security folks who rail against the Microsoft Monoculture I still cannot believe some of the uses for Windows. Some of them are just downright silly, some you may claim are criminally negligent. |
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| #1 By 8556 (12.210.39.82) at Sunday, July 20, 2008 11:21:06 AM |
| Microsoft has made low cost, and free, developer tools available for years. Don't blame the companies for putting out products that were quick to develop on Windows and met customer specs. |
| #2 By 92283 (70.66.78.103) at Sunday, July 20, 2008 11:53:54 AM |
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What about the Linux monoculture?
One low level Debian dev comments out one line of code and suddenly millions of Linux boxes are easy to hack into. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/13/1533212 |
| #3 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:50:40 PM |
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This has to be one of the most dreadful articles I have ever read and it speaks, ney, screams just how much of a lame noob the author is.
Let me draw an example (pic here as an example of what I mean - http://blog.libertech.net/photos/sarver/picture64.aspx ) Look, one of the very best things about Windows and Microsoft software is about one's ability to manage and scale it. That means one can scale things down, too. In uber simple terms, Windows really is very modular and it can be deployed in configurations that are as tightly defined and restricted as is needed. In the example pic, there is a deployment of Windows (embedded in this case) on very low-cost systems that have no moving parts. At log in a terminal services based practice management app loads. No other access is available to the user. Calls within the app are limited to others apps user need to do their jobs and websites that are pre-approved. This is so common and so reliable that only rare hardware failures result in any down-time. There are nearly countless similar solutions we deploy across medical, legal, manufacturing and many other verticals. This article is pure junk. I'm sure I'll write more on this topic later on. |
| #4 By 8556 (12.210.39.82) at Sunday, July 20, 2008 11:36:39 PM |
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#3: i don't think he is a noob, just ignorant. http://www.fortinet.com/news/pr/2006/pr112806.html
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| #5 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at Monday, July 21, 2008 12:28:36 AM |
| #4, He's both. I get real tired of these guys running off at the mouth, that never do a dang thing. They don't build solutions. The don't deploy. They don't fix things. They sit around and write garbage based upon an external perspective that is at best, incomplete. There's crap all over the net like this. |
| #6 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at Monday, July 21, 2008 12:30:19 AM |
| chief marketing officer? lmao. this guy is qualified for one thing only... to be LAUGHED at. |
| #7 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Monday, July 21, 2008 02:17:52 PM |
| It's not hard to tell when an article is posted that doesn't fawn over Microsoft. All the fanbois come out and whine without providing any substance to their complaints. What this guy seems to be saying is that Windows is too large for small jobs and too unstable for critical jobs. And he's right. If you want a Windows PC to run a green arrow, go for it. However, it could have been done cheaper & simpler some other way. |
| #8 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at Monday, July 21, 2008 02:57:33 PM |
| If a chief marketing officer is worthy of laughter, what do you suppose my opinion of you is coffeeboy? |
| #9 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Monday, July 21, 2008 03:13:21 PM |
| #8: If I could fit the Universe on the head of a pin, there would still be lots of room for how little I care about your opinion of me. Ketchum provides a lot of opinion and few links. Parkkker provides a lot of links and little opinion. You consistently provide neither. You complain without actually saying what you're taking offense to, and instead you choose to ad hom attacks. You disparage the guy because you're not mature enough to handle his job title. What are you, 12 years old? Or is the ad hom attack all you have to run with because, to do otherwise, you'd have to sit and come up with some actual thoughts? |
| #10 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at Monday, July 21, 2008 09:53:21 PM |
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How much extra would I need to pay to get my coffee without the dialog?
Do you hate all life? Or just your own? |
| #11 By 2332 (66.92.78.241) at Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:39:05 AM |
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#2 - Actually, the problem is far worse than you may realize.
Linux advocates often invoke the dangers of having a mono culture. In the same way a farmer risks everything by only growing one variety of crop, companies risk everything by standardizing on Windows. But their claims are both simplistic and, ironically, hypocritical. The claims are simplistic because it ignores the huge security benefits of standardization. In a Windows-only Active Directory based network, I can far more easily patch/monitor/control that network than if I had 10 different platforms. Microsoft has tons of tools that make it pretty darn easy to managing patching, not to mention the proven track record of Active Directory. The claims are hypocritical because these same people often advocate open source, a concept that absolutely relies on common code bases being used across thousands of different products. Not only are they helping spread a mono culture, but it's often a stealth mono culture. How many businesses know exactly where all the various modules and libraries that their mission critical applications rely on came from? So give the mono culture baloney a rest. |
