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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Windows 10 forceful update? |
| Date | 2016-02-21 13:42 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <ditt5uF5b3rU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <na49hv$nmq$1@dont-email.me> <diqrn8Fc6nfU3@mid.individual.net> <dit8a8FcoqU1@mid.individual.net> |
On 2016-02-21, Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> wrote:
> in 661162 20160220 095904 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>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.
>
> All the major banks in London have IBM mainframes running variations of MVS.
Like I said, "Everything and anything". You think City banks run everything on one machine? Or even one type of machine? Or even one class of machine? Or even one architecture of machine? The place I worked for before retiring last year had dozens of mainframes, and thousands (no, not an exaggeration. I personally knew of ~9,000 Unixy machines) of mid-range servers, mostly Unix, or Unix-related. Windows Server was a deprecated technology, and projects required dispensation to be allowed to use it. OTOH, the desktop was completely Windows (ca. 300,000 users).
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Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2016-02-21 07:46 +0000
Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-02-21 13:42 +0000
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