Windows XP Home: obsolete sooner than you expect
Wednesday, January 4, 2006 by coffeegrinder | Discussion: Windows XP
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HighCommand
Reply #22 Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:44 PM
Reply #22 Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:44 PM
Unfortunately, there is no OS that doesn't need updates, as bugs and holes are discovered in Windows, Mac, and Linux all the time.
bakerstreet
Reply #23 Wednesday, March 1, 2006 1:18 AM
Born more of being feature rich than inherently insecure. Most of our security problems with Windows comes from Microsoft rushing to be everything to everyone, and trying to make internet browsers and media players seamlessly part of our OS. Most of these gaping holes come from these secondary functions trying to work alongside the OS instead of as an untrusted layer apart from it.
I tend to think that if they stuck to being an OS, and let the other apps be secondary, we wouldn't have had the situation we've lived with for years. Sure, there's no OS that is free from bugs and updates, but if you only count the ones involved in the core function of the OS, I think we'd have a lot less to worry about. They'd have also had less anti-trust worries.
Reply #23 Wednesday, March 1, 2006 1:18 AM
| " Unfortunately, there is no OS that doesn't need updates, as bugs and holes are discovered in Windows, Mac, and Linux all the time." |
Born more of being feature rich than inherently insecure. Most of our security problems with Windows comes from Microsoft rushing to be everything to everyone, and trying to make internet browsers and media players seamlessly part of our OS. Most of these gaping holes come from these secondary functions trying to work alongside the OS instead of as an untrusted layer apart from it.
I tend to think that if they stuck to being an OS, and let the other apps be secondary, we wouldn't have had the situation we've lived with for years. Sure, there's no OS that is free from bugs and updates, but if you only count the ones involved in the core function of the OS, I think we'd have a lot less to worry about. They'd have also had less anti-trust worries.
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Reply #21 Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:12 PM