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"Microsoft made a big point of saying
that the Web browser was part of the operating system a few years
back, and now we're having to live with the problems that come
from integrating a program that talks to the entire networked
universe with a fundamentally insecure infrastructure.
Lucky us.
It's been more than three years now since
Bill Gates proclaimed that "Trustworthy Computing
is more important than any other part of our work."
Yeah. Right.
No, Firefox isn't perfectly secure.
No, Linux isn't perfectly secure.
Nothing is sure but death, taxes and Windows
crashes.
Yes, Windows with open-source programs
like Firefox and Thunderbird is still more secure than Windows
with Microsoft programs.
But, if you want a PC you can run without
wondering every day what new security problem arrived during
the night, you're better off with Firefox and Linux or Camino
and Mac OS X."
Windows. Just say no.
eWEEK.com Senior Editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
has been working and writing about technology and business since
the late '80s and thinks he may just have learned something about
them along the way.
This Exerpt from March 17/05 Newsletter.
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