"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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In article , Bill Denton wrote:
That's simply not true in the least. Applications should not be able
to
crash an OS. If it can, that's a serious OS bug. I would say that
you've
been exposed to MS' OS a little too long without understanding what
else
is out there.

I have seen applications crash NT workstation and server four or five
times,
and I've crashed Win2K Professional twice; once with Flight Simulator.

Which means the OS has some serious bugs. Either that or bad drivers
(I've come across some hideously bad - I mean really inexcusably bad
video drivers).

As for Windows being easy to set up (you cited WfWG), Macintosh networks
were that easy to set up in 1988 - we had a Mac network at school then.
It's hardly Windows that has made setting up LANs easy. Setting up the
LAN isn't even quarter of the battle - keeping it up *and secure* is a
much bigger chunk of it. An easy GUI setup and few scripting tools, and
an insecure default configuration means that the easy set up has a
really nasty sting in the tail, as evidenced by the hundreds of
thousands of hosts listed in Spamhaus's XBL (Exploits Blacklist). You
need proper admins (i.e. ones you'll have to pay well) to keep your
network secure even if it runs Windows. Admins who know how to write
scripts to automate jobs. That kind of thing. Having some non-admin set
it up with the easy-to-use GUI is just a malware breeding ground.

Fine, if you have a huge corporation that can afford a bunch of well-paid
admins. Your argument is beginning to sound an awful lot like you don't
think most people should have computers and that you think that the general
public is a menace. That isn't the fault of Windows. You know, the Internet
would not be nearly so big today if it weren't for all of those incompetent
Windows users that are able to access it. Get rid of them and you dry up 80%
of the business base. The rest would not be worth keeping the Internet
running. You could not even go back to the days when only research
facilities and the military had Internet access. It would be gone,
completely. So, although you think that the public are a threat, maybe you
might start asking yourself what would happen if you really got your way.
Maybe you are a bigger threat than the public you despise.