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If you're hunting polar bears, you go to the Arctic. If you're hunting
penguins, you go to the Antarctic. Closer to home, the classic reason for
robbing banks is that "that's where the money is." The reason Windows
attracts more security attacks isn't because it's any more vulnerable than
competitors, it's because it is the underlying OS for *most* of the casual
data storage in the world. Were MAC or some Linux system to gain a truly
significant place in the OS distribution, you would see a correspondingly
major proportion of attacks directed at those platforms. I won't even try to
educate you on the vast difference between Windows and other platforms,
where Windows is designed to run (and usually succeeds) on an incredible
variety of hardware, usually without much hassle at all, certainly much less
than the hassle required to maintain a Linux platform (running MAC OS
platforms on other hardware isn't even an option.)
I'm not sure I understand your "attracts bugs" statement. You're stating
that IE has more functional bugs than competitors? I'd like to see the stats
on that. One thing I *do* know is that IE has much more functionality built
in, and much more support for programming created by third-parties. My guess
is that most of the "bugs" you speak of are in the 3rd-party programming,
not IE itself. So yeah, competitors exhibit fewer bugs, but that's because
they provide much less functionality and much less support for 3rd-party
programming.
I don't know what you do or don't know, but I *do* know that much of what
you've been spouting in this group over the last several weeks is
balderdash, much of it repeated "wisdom" that isn't any such thing. And you
still haven't explained why, if you think MS wares are so buggy and
undesirable, you persist in using them. Or was that what you were referring
to in your opening line, the one about, "We all have to deal with what we
have and what we have access to..."? Are you saying you're using Windows
because you have no choice? Which, I take it, also means you haven't ever
really used anything else? Could it be that you're indulging in a "grass is
greener" argument. Could it be that if you put some effort into learning
proper usage of Windows, if you were to, in a sense, fertilize your own
lawn, you might notice that it will become a lot greener on this side of the
fence? Are you saying, "I'm too poor and destitute to use a *good* computer
system, but I'm perfectly qualified to advise you to stop using Windows, et
al."?
It's obvious from your correspondence that your knowledge on these subjects
is lacking. That's OK, that's why these groups exist--to teach ourselves and
others about Windows usage. What's *not* OK, at least not in my book, is to
slam the technology we're here to discuss without any *facts* or underlying
knowledge to back it up. Your pronouncments amount to a huge bag of hot air,
essentially useless to the rest of us.
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm
"Rex" <Rex@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> We all have to deal with what we have and what we have access to,
> and its global that IE attracts *bugs*.
> Since my first use of a different browser I noticed a huge drop in
> *problems*, if this werent true you wouldnt find people daily switching
> over
> to non micro
> products for browsing & etc.
> Yeah, sure, I'll leave *things* to those who know, but the world I know is
> one where the more you know the less you know.
>
> ..Rex..
>
> "Gary S. Terhune" <grystnews@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:unZv4jglFHA.936@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Other than the fact that what you say is pure BS, what in blazes does IE
>> have to do with Task Scheduler and Critical Updates Notification?
>>
>> Hey, if "problems will disappear the less you use micro products", why
>> don't you just get something from Apple (so your world will be limited
>> to simple tasks you *might* be able to handle), or dive into the *nix
>> world, and spend the rest of your years just getting the OS to function
>> at all, and eschew MS altogether? Put your money where your mouth is and
>> leave those of us who *know* that Windows is a superior product for the
>> purpose (when all factors are considered) get on with our business.
>>
>> --
>> Gary S. Terhune
>> MS MVP Shell/User
>>
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
>>
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm
>>
>> "Rex" <Rex@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:ufSECBclFHA.3032@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>
>> > Get rid of IE, get Mozilla or Opera or whatever; problems will
>> > disappear the less you use micro products.
>> >
>> > ..Rex..
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
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