Two years after it was introduced, XP STILL comes out of the box broken, insecure, and unpatched. What possible excuse is there for that? XP currently comes with service pack 1a already installed. Which leaves you with, last time I checked, bout 12 updates to do. Which is far less than YOU
On Saturday 12 June 2004 21:13, John Andersen wrote: threw at me last time I installed SUSE. If you buy a Windows 2000 CD now, you get SP4 - again, leaving you to do 16 or so updates. I'm not trying to say Windows is not insecure, but Microsoft has certainly made quite a few improvements. Working for a company that does a lot of desktop support (amongst other things), I can see this every day. We spend a lot of time putting out fires on Windows98 PCs, while we seldom hear a squeak from our clients using Windows 2000/XP.
You are simply more familiar with XP. Had you chosen XP as your first windows OS after being familiar with Linux for several years you be shakeing your head in disgust.
I guess it works both ways. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za