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Blazen wrote:I think most complain about the security; most the viruses and what not are aimed at MS. I have used MS products in all of my jobs and don't really have that many issues. Your only secure as you want to be. When outbreaks do happen, most can't patch fast enough or figure they will not get hit. I think most think they are not a big shop and therefore will not take a hit. Things will always break, rather its hardware or software...

You're right.

My organization has approximately 500-600 PCs. We off and on battled with the flavor of the month virus for a long time. I suggested constantly that we needed to implement a forced update schedule. My ideas were always back-burnered for cost reasons until Corporate's systems were hit especially hard during one outbreak.
My PCs were fine because I manually kept them all reasonably updated.

We got the SUS updater the next day! LOL

The vast majority of 'security' breaches have already been addressed by MS. Automatic updates are a good thing!

gigag04 wrote:

one eyed fatman wrote:As long as Microsoft keeps their operating system screwed up they are needed and keep making money

What exactly is screwed up about MS OS's?

Not trying to flame ya, just curious if I can clear up something.

-nick

I'm curious too.

I make my living working on MS OS's and honestly I don't do much. Since the roll over to Windows XP, I have experienced almost 0 problems...to put it another way, of the ~65 PCs that I am directly responsible for that have some flavor of Windows installed, I would imagine that I run about 99.99999% uptime. Of the downtime I do have, probably 75% is due to human error or hardware failure.

My work PC is a Dell with Windows XP. In the 2 years I have worked on this particular machine I can't remember it EVER crashing. Not once. My work pc is never turned off...I remember to reboot once every couple of weeks.

My home PC is windows XP I remember a few crashes, but they're always fixed by a reboot. I'm talking less than 5 in the 3 years I've ran winxp on it. My home PC runs 24x7 as a web gateway.

I think that people get wrapped up in their dislike for MS's business practices and that dislike is carried over to their products. Win95 had a bad reputation that was justified. Win98 sucked, but was great when they released 98se. ME was a stinker but I never had any real issues with it.
Win2k was awesome and WinXP only improved on 2k.