[LINK] Re: Windows XP versus Vista

[Matthew Sullivan]

Kim Holburn wrote:
> On 2008/Jan/24, at 9:46 AM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>
>> Remind me again, how many Mac or Linux zombies are there out in the 
>> wild?
>
> And that's the critical thing isn't it.  You can rabbit on about 
> number of vulnerabilities but in the end you have thousands of viruses 
> and trojans actually out there on windows and not on linux or the 
> Mac.   And most people running Linux and Macs don't even have 
> anti-virus software.
>
> Part of the problem of Windows zombies are precisely because there are 
> so many pirated copies and really old versions out there and now MS is 
> trying to refuse to update and patch them.  You could say that a large 
> part of the zombie problem comes directly as a result of the licensing 
> policies of Microsoft.


I'd disagree with that, M$ is trying to force people into upgrading (and 
paying more $$$) by not patching older OS's, that is the problem with 
Microsoft and Windows.  Patches for Linux kernel 2.0.x don't happen any 
more...  I can't get my Mandrake 8 box (that just died last week as it 
happens) patched to the latest versions of everything (and no, you can't 
just patch it!). My Mac is getting patched pretty much automatically, 
but I wonder how long before I am forced to upgrade to the next OSX or 
not get patched? (and I know I'll have to pay or pirate for the upgrade).

On a lighter note, I have a substantial number of machines at home, and 
the funny thing is only 2 of my machines have more room than the 40G 
required for Vista...  This Mac, and a Sun Enterprise 2500 with 400G of 
FCAL Drives...which of course will not run vista anyhow.  Even my 'games 
machine' doesn't have the drive space with a 40G drive as it's primary.

Regards,

Mat