Wednesday, April 1, 2009

WRONG!!!

"Windows users may further have to invest in anti-virus software, as a result of the OS being targeted more often."

WARNING: Float-over windows galore in this article.

Windows is not more vulnerable because it is more popular. Windows is more vulnerable because it is based on a flawed software infrastructure. Why we still have a registry in Windows is simply beyond me, but there it is.

Microsoft was never intended to build operating systems. Microsoft built applications and that is what they were and are good at doing. Had Gary Kildall answered IBM's knocking on the door the computing world would look very different today and we'd all be using some version of CP/M, or maybe OS/2, or maybe something else. Whatever we'd be using we'd be better off for it.

It has been seven years since Bill Gates launched the Trustworthy Computing Initiative in an effort to secure Windows. The faithful are still waiting, Mr. Gates. The enlightened have moved on.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I totally agree with you, and the author of that article.

http://www.pressleypress.com/blog/?p=110