Why UNIX is better than Windows... By Microsoft 974
BenBenBen writes "According to a whitepaper found on "a fairly insecure server", UNIX not only is more reliable and easier to maintain than Windows (2000 in this case), it's cheaper too. These shock results are reported on both The Register and (the source) Security Office."
Great Quote (Score:1, Funny)
Coming soon to a vendor near you - Dogfood(TM) .NET edition
slashdotted (Score:3, Funny)
WTF is it runing on - a quad Xeon IIS 2.0/w2k machine with 1 GB memory?
What does this have to do with BSD? (Score:1, Funny)
Microsoft.... (Score:5, Funny)
News at 11 (Score:5, Funny)
UNIX better than Windows? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, the humanity!
(Yes, this was sarcastic!)
shock results? (Score:2, Funny)
Slow down cowboy! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Does republishing these... (Score:5, Funny)
Also, isn't the paper just the opinion of the writer, and dismissable by MS like the tobacco industry dismissed the memo by one of its ad exec mapping out marketing cigarettes to children. They would never do such a thing, no.
That MS has one honest soul in its ranks shouldn't be all that much of a shocker, right? Oops, I guess that was a troll.
Re:Hotmail? (Score:5, Funny)
> reliable, configurable, cheap O/S?
Yeah, they could call it MS/Linux.
Re:slashdotted (Score:4, Funny)
And in another memo... (Score:3, Funny)
Obligitory Simpsons Quote (Score:3, Funny)
Ha, Ha
</simpsons>
Looks like once again, M$ gets busted for lying through it's teeth. Of course, that's what all good marketing is. Not that any of this comes as a suprise for anyone who's administered both Windows and *nix boxen.
Maybe if... (Score:2, Funny)
M$ used *nix servers, they wouldn't have this problem
-ARe:Slow down cowboy! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hotmail? (Score:2, Funny)
You get the idea.
If it were to come about, it would the most (or should that be "only"?) schizophrenic OS out there - constantly battling with itself to be free (as in speech) and closed at the same time. Perhaps they could reincarnate Bob as some little clippy that tries to both help and screw with with. Oh no wait, I believe the standard Clippy [microsoft.com] already does that...
Re:Is This Necessarily Bad? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:slashdotted - bandwidth (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bingo! (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, but what if they sent chocolates and hookers to you?
Re:The goal in mind being UNIX? (Score:5, Funny)
Duh. They would just copy the Apple product like they have for all those other great M$ GUI "innovations."
Re:The goal in mind being UNIX? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bingo! (Score:2, Funny)
If he's anything like me, he'd eat them both.
I can see how that would go... (Score:5, Funny)
Consumer: No, no you don't.
MS: Yeah... But our friends. Them and unix GOT IT ON!
Consumer: No... They didn't.
MS: No... But you could imagine what it'd be like if they did.
clean code in apple OS? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Exactly. (Score:5, Funny)
WARNING: Your comment "Are slashdotters extremely naive or something" brings common sense into a slashdot discussion. Common sense on slashdot goes against several RFCs.Your karma will be appropriately decimated.
Thank you,
The Editors
Re:The goal in mind being UNIX? (Score:4, Funny)
Death penalty, I wish!... (Score:5, Funny)
A special clause on page 394 of the enacting legislation says that anyone convicted of publishing Microsoft's dirty laundy is enjoined from using any other operating system for life. It's Microsoft only, baby!
Repeat offenders are enjoined from using any operating system other than Windows ME.
And for the hard-core cases... they bring out BOB.
Am I the only one... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is This Necessarily Bad? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)
The only servers they have are Really Insecure, Fairly Insecure, and "You want an FTP login with that?"
Re:Does republishing these... (Score:3, Funny)
yuck yuck yuck
=)
Re:Slow down cowboy! (Score:2, Funny)
Although it may be more effective to send the memo with the one about the TPS reports.
Re:And this is news? (Score:5, Funny)
We don't, slashdot publishes what we aready think is abvious not for mere redundancy, but to keep our morale when our favorite game/app wont run under Unix, or when you have to compile 75 dependencies to get Evolution to run properly.
Like it matters... (Score:3, Funny)
The next words out of the customer's mouth were, "Oooh, I like how it fades."
Apparently, this customer was an ex-Millenium user who looked past computer lockups as commonplace, or perhaps they just really dig user interfaces and could care less about the fact that a new display computer is having problems locking up during a simple mouse meneuver.
Re:The goal in mind being UNIX? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Pardon my scepticism (Score:4, Funny)
And now we understand the origin of all the MS security holes.
Clippy: It looks like you're trying to copy an unchecked buffer, would you like help with this feature?...
Re:Pardon my scepticism (Score:2, Funny)
But you are forgetting one thing. Though you may hate the taste of dog food, it is actually a lot more nutritious than almost every made-for-human alternative.
Re:clean code in apple OS? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Death penalty, I wish!... (Score:3, Funny)
No, just death. Isn't that enough?
Apparently it isn't.
Re:The goal in mind being UNIX? (Score:4, Funny)
Of course, in all fairness, Microsoft licensed the mac look & feel from apple, who got it from parc, who couldn't sell water purifiers to an Ethiopian.
Re:Is This Necessarily Bad? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Exactly. (Score:4, Funny)
Noooooooo! Now you've spawned a whole new generation of bad jokes...
Karma: xcellent (ostly affcted by oderationdone to yur commens and subequent dcimation)
Re:The goal in mind being UNIX? (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, obviously, because BSD is dying.
Omigod, I just like totally trolled! ;)
What, am I the only one who reads at -1? Is this thing on?
=tkk
Re:Exactly. (Score:3, Funny)
yes, it is nearly 2 nines...
Re:Chocolate and Hookers (Score:5, Funny)
I don't think that I would accept a hooker from Microsoft. My guess is that she would have a virus.
Chocolate, on the other hand...
New Microsoft MasterCard ad? (Score:4, Funny)
Office XP - $699
MS admitting that Unix is better: Priceless
Re:The goal in mind being UNIX? (Score:3, Funny)