The Microsoft Petri Dish

Story: 3 moments in Vista that make me consider LinuxTotal Replies: 2
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henke54

Sep 18, 2007
9:31 AM EST
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Strassmann said one reason that zombies and other cybernasties succeed so well is that they can easily hide in the hundreds of millions of lines of code that make up Microsoft operating systems and applications. Microsoft-based systems are a "Petri dish" for zombies, he said, adding that global reliance on MS systems exacerbates the problem.

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tracyanne

Sep 18, 2007
12:04 PM EST 		He also said

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Since there are no real, inexpensive alternatives to MS today,



Abe

Sep 18, 2007
1:35 PM EST
Quoted:
He also said ...


Very observant Tracyanne. Thanks for highlighting it, I actually missed.

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