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'It's really hard to take you serious when you can...

2009-10-28T21:00:08.278-05:00

'It's really hard to take you serious when you can't spell words like "most" and "Novell" '

Fallacy - Trivial objections. Two typos that you were clearly able to figure out are not a sticking point for his argument.

'You could write a few random bytes to the registry in just the right place and suddenly Windows doesn't boot or allow you to login any more.'

With every OS if you do "X operation in just the right place" it stops working. Evidenced by the fact that OSX is always the first to drop at Pwn2Own and similar events. It's not just Windows.

'The "windows is more popular" argument for why there's more viruses is just asinine.'

As asinine as 90% of Apple users who buy into "security through obscurity"? I think not. Also, it's not an asinine argument to begin with.

If you have, say, 10 million people on Windows OSes and 75% of them are morons (which would be lowballing it) you can get a higher infection rate than the OSX install base. Why waste time with Apple? It might be 90% morons, but it's still a fraction of the virus penetration.

'It shouldn't have to be "designed for Windows 7" to actually work. The whole point is backwards compatibility'

Again, feel free to find me an OS that has zero compatibility issues when in its infancy. I'll wait. Is it still an issue? Absolutely. But pretending you're not going to have those issues elsewhere is a joke.

'What is so great about your computer being slow and having to constantly restart your applications? The fact that you even HAVE to worry about viruses and malware on a daily basis should be enough of a red flag to make you reconsider it.'

Only happens when you're entirely incompetent. Which is OS independent.

'Sure, there are more applications for Windows because it's more popular, but that is quickly changing as people adopt other platforms.'

Quickly changing? It's not 'quickly' doing anything when no contender has managed to take 10% market share in 15 years. Sorry.

XP was basically the last MSFT product that wasn't...

2009-10-28T04:52:50.832-05:00

XP was basically the last MSFT product that wasn't predominantly offshored / outsourced and IT SHOWS, doesn't it?

http://www.businessinsider.com/ballmer-threatens-obama-says-hell-move-jobs-overseas-2009-6

This is a laugh. Most of MSFT is offshore anyway.

It's really hard to take you serious when you can'...

2009-10-27T14:48:19.635-05:00

It's really hard to take you serious when you can't spell words like "most" and "Novell". He didn't say the registry was the cause of all the viruses, he said it contributes to the amount of viruses for the platform. It's pretty easy to see how it would, considering you have to run most everything on Windows as an Administrator for it to run right. You could write a few random bytes to the registry in just the right place and suddenly Windows doesn't boot or allow you to login any more. The "windows is more popular" argument for why there's more viruses is just asinine. Of course it's more popular, just admit the security in windows sucks and it allows viruses to do more damage. It's harder to break things on OSX or Linux when you're not running everything as root.

Probably the dumbest thing you said was "...you would have been attempting to use software not designed for it...". Well DDUUHHH!! Of course there's no software designed for Windows 7 yet, but that's not the point. It shouldn't have to be "designed for Windows 7" to actually work. The whole point is backwards compatibility, with the exception of 16-bit apps but you really should've upgraded those long ago.

He wasn't "spreading blatant lies and myths". He didn't have to, you did. I will never understand why people insist on defending Windows. What is so great about your computer being slow and having to constantly restart your applications? The fact that you even HAVE to worry about viruses and malware on a daily basis should be enough of a red flag to make you reconsider it. Sure, there are more applications for Windows because it's more popular, but that is quickly changing as people adopt other platforms.

Stop trying to defend Microsoft so much and just let them continue to shoot themselves in the foot.

My windows 7 install works great. Clean install o...

2009-10-27T12:06:47.385-05:00

My windows 7 install works great. Clean install of course, upgrades are always sketchy.

But a few things. There are PLENTY of viruses for macs and linux. Hell, if you count security patches, linux, pick a distro any of them, wins for mose patched security holes.

I own a mac, several windows boxes, run a few different distros of linux, hell I even have a novel box.

windows 7 works great, all of my apps work 100% from XP to windows 7, any that have issues get resolved with compatibility mode.

And no, the registry has NOTHING to do with the amount of viruses available for the windows environment, that's an uneducated statement. Windows owns the lions share of the OS market, so it's only natural that people would code their nasties for it, and since it's a pretty simple platform, the best choice for a hacker.

There's an infinite amount of linux distros out there in any possible combination of setups and as such would make it a poor choice for a virus. Beyond that, to actually USE linux, you've got to be a little more savvy than the standard mac/windows user to begin with. you don't steal the car with an alarm and "the club" you take the path of least resistance.

there's not enough mac users to really warrant many viruses, but they do exist and as uninformed people like you advise people to switch because they are safer, will just compound the issue.

Microsoft should be ashamed at itself over this issue, and it's not going to look good on them. This in no way impacts on how the OS functions, and from the comments I've read here, none of you have actually installed or used it, simple as that, what programs don't open? What programs don't operate correctly?

You do realize that the OS only launched this month, and you would have been attempting to use software not designed for it, meaning you'd have to select compatibility mode for that program, selecting whatever os it was designed for.

Keep your complaints grounded in reality and stop spreading blatant lies and myths. the same BS was out around windows xp, and what did people find when they finally tried it? It was all BS and myths.

I'm in no way a windows fanboy, I use them all