Story: Service Pack 2: Patching the unpatchable

Posted by: John Phillip (Tuesday 10 August 2004, 10:44 AM)

linux and the mac os are just as bad if not worse, especially linux which is classed as safe as such a small minority of people use it.
Windows is large and monolithic but at least you dont have to spend days trying to work out how to get the operating system to recognise a usb device unlike linux which i promptly gave up with and went back to windows which under XP at least does what i want it to.
Spyware should be made illegal and be punishable with the same penalties as hacking ie jail, ban on using computers for a sizeable time and for the company paying for its development....liquidation.
Also its maybe gotten to the stage where the indutry like law, medicine etc needs to be licensed and those found developing without a license punished, as unfortunately there are far too many unscupolous people working in computing, ive met several that have done jail time for dishonesty etc yet are still allowed to work with computers?!?
i think the best thing microsoft could do id ditch everything they have with XP etc and ensure longhorn is a total newbuild, properly referenced etc, even if older programs stop working with it,. it would be a price id be willing to pay to use a secure operating system.