A public service announcement about Windows

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http://www.novell.com/linux/windowstolinux/publicservice

[ET Awful]

1. Odd that Novell wouldn't mention the plethora of security issues found

in their own build of Linux recently eh?

Even more odd is that they direct this to NT users, an OS which has been obsolete for over 5 years.

[Redstone]

2. To have a web page with a movie that doesn't run?

Not defending Windows...but Novell should check their platform functionality before they shoot their mouths off.

Redstone

[Renew Deal]

6. The movie runs.

what's wrong with your browser? Do you have Flash 7 installed?

[Nomad559]

3. Windows tops Linux

Linux fan concedes Microsoft is more secure
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1161323


Windows tops Linux in security demo
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/212384_msftlinux17.html

[Solon]

5. In patching for Red Hat...

Which many people don't even bother using, yeah. Also, it only addressed the amount of time it took to patch the system when a security flaw is found. For Windows a month, and it took Red Hat inc. 71 days. This means nothing for someone who doesn't use Red Hat, and it compared servers, 2003 and Enterprise Server, not Windows XP and let's say Debian. I do find the story funny, because, technically, this has nothing to do with the systems themselves, but who has there act together more, Red Hat, or Microsoft. Besides, they even conceded in the article that any security exploits found in Linux couldn't be as bad as those in Windows.

Here's the quote from the second article:

For example, the historically tight integration of extra programs inside Windows generally makes it easier for attacks to spread from one application to the other, said analyst John Pescatore, vice president for Internet security at Gartner Inc.

It's an issue Microsoft is trying to address. But when Linux is attacked, "you don't hear a lot of stories about pain" experienced by users, Pescatore said. When Windows gets exploited, he said, "worse things can happen."

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4. Oh for fscks sake

Windows NT is now over ten years old-- which is like 100 in human years. It has been superceeded not only by Win2000 but by .Net Server.

This is like asking Ford to keep making parts for the Edsel. Business is business. It's not in MS's best financial interest to keep supporting a platform that's used by <4% of its user base.

Hmmm.....I wonder why Novell no longer supports NetWare v1.0? :shrug:

[MrModerate]

7. Funny . . . but bushwah.

I'm happy to bash Microsoft with the best of them, but c'mon.

Other posters have pointed out that if these folks are still using an obsolete system, they should all have been fired for incompetence anyway.

Novell, I have to point out, is the company that's taken every major product it's ever touched and run it into the ground and -- shockingly -- pulled support for said dead products.

Netware, WordPerfect . . . I'm sure the real industry types out there can remember more.

So we should invest our future with their brand of Linux, an operating system that's clearly headed for a trainwreck as the lawyers and patent privateers battle it out over who "owns" open source?

I'm not an IT person, just a user, and even I know well enough to stay out of that minefield.