Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Martin Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 07:46:16 GMT Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net HD2GagzECa9NAydUns+H0QXHpSY9TnyEqmFfLOIeWfKiQd9M9I X-Orig-Path: BERLIN : news.individual.net Cancel-Lock: sha1:8w+t20xgIiDV1RHuq2btKmAgCvI= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:160022 in 661162 20160220 095904 Huge wrote: >On 2016-02-19, Melzzzzz wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:51:28 +0000 >> Stephen Wolstenholme wrote: >> >>> On 19 Feb 2016 14:04:44 GMT, Huge wrote: >>> >>> >On 2016-02-18, Jon Elson 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. All the major banks in London have IBM mainframes running variations of MVS.