tommywho70x
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- Apr 15, 2010
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in 30 years of cleaning up after the microsoft weenies and their defective software, i don't think i have ever seen a thread about a new windows release with so many satisfied customers.
i'm guessing from what i'm reading here is that most of you are casual users and your machines are not always online in a big network or tasked with critical jobs. but then, i haven't seen those kind of people screaming bloody murder about windows 7 either so maybe microsoft has finally gotten its act together?
to add my opinion to the PC vs. MAC debate: at their essence, both OS's are the same. both were stolen from XEROX and have evolved along only slightly different lines. at the GUI, both appear to the user to behave essentially the same.
MACs and MAC-compatible peripherals cost more, but then most commercial cults charge a premuim for membership.
MACs are certainly not invulnerable to attack and there is a current MAC virus problem that is pretty widespread.
i think there are two main reasons why MAC users don't get hammered as badly as PC users. first, MACs are usually not deployed by big corporate or government networks that are targeted by attack and second, many of the attacking programs are built specifically to go after Microsoft software.
because home users and small businesses do not enjoy the protection of the bigger networks, their machines end up becoming home for those little beauties when they home in on the machines talking "MS-DOS\WINDOWS" on the network in the clear.
i'm guessing from what i'm reading here is that most of you are casual users and your machines are not always online in a big network or tasked with critical jobs. but then, i haven't seen those kind of people screaming bloody murder about windows 7 either so maybe microsoft has finally gotten its act together?
to add my opinion to the PC vs. MAC debate: at their essence, both OS's are the same. both were stolen from XEROX and have evolved along only slightly different lines. at the GUI, both appear to the user to behave essentially the same.
MACs and MAC-compatible peripherals cost more, but then most commercial cults charge a premuim for membership.
MACs are certainly not invulnerable to attack and there is a current MAC virus problem that is pretty widespread.
i think there are two main reasons why MAC users don't get hammered as badly as PC users. first, MACs are usually not deployed by big corporate or government networks that are targeted by attack and second, many of the attacking programs are built specifically to go after Microsoft software.
because home users and small businesses do not enjoy the protection of the bigger networks, their machines end up becoming home for those little beauties when they home in on the machines talking "MS-DOS\WINDOWS" on the network in the clear.