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To: Alas Babylon!
Microsoft hasn't changed their automatic orienttion....there will still be exploits...

And Oracle's JAVA is now even worse apparently.

Take a look at the various Linux distros....for serious internet browsing....

Why have a computer with personal data accessible to the INTERNET....when there are other choices,.?

19 posted on 01/12/2013 10:18:31 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Dude, I teach Microsoft and Unix operating systems, servers, high-end networking, etc. to business customers. I started off teaching Unix (we were telneting into a single SunOS Sparc 20) while still in the USAF BEFORE Linux and BEFORE Windows NT. I got Linus Torvalds email and source code in 1994, and compiled my first Linux (terminal only mode box) on an old 486. When I retired from active duty I got my MCSE and moved to NT only because of our customer’s needs and wants. Since then everyone has gotten Windows Active Directory domains, Exchange mail servers, SharePoint sites, and every user machines is a Windows box running Windows apps, all history now.

I actually taught a Linux class last year for the first time in 10 years. I used Redhat Enterprise 3 and Fedora 16 and 17, Ubuntu and some older Free BCD because I still love it! Still, it is not what the business world wants and my money is in the business world.

And end users? You’ve got to be kidding! I can teach some IT people Unix/Linux, but most think it too hard. End users just want Microsoft because that’s what they grew up on. Heck, business customers don’t even want Apple, and that just works, as they say.


21 posted on 01/12/2013 10:46:45 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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