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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Windows 10 forceful update? |
| Date | 2016-02-20 09:59 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <diqrn8Fc6nfU3@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2016-02-19, Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:51:28 +0000
> Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> wrote:
>
>> On 19 Feb 2016 14:04:44 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> >On 2016-02-18, Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> wrote:
>> >> gareth wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Will the attempted forceful update of Windows 10 sound the
>> >>> death-knell for MicroSoft and drive all reasonable people onto
>> >>> Linux?
>> >> Actually, I'm not totally in favor of that. If everybody ran
>> >> Linux, then the script kiddies would start developing nasty
>> >> malware for it. yes, it would be harder, but if they try hard
>> >> enough, they would find the vulnerabilities.
>> >
>> >The problem with that argument is that there are some very juicy
>> >Linux targets out there. Your bank (and for that matter, everyone
>> >else's bank) for example. And yet, Linux malware is thin on the
>> >ground.
>>
>> My bank does not use Linux. They don't use Windows either.
>
> Oracle+Solaris, that is what banks use...
IME (and I worked in the City of London for 21 years), banks use everything and anything. But Linux is eating all the proprietary Unixes, and Windows server for anything above a trivial size.
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