On Thursday October 10 2002 01:54 pm, Robin Turner wrote:
> shane wrote:
> > many a tech feels like the CTO of my wifes company, a fortune 500
> > company told me he feels: "we always knew their security was bad,
> > but 6000 patches later we get hit by bugbear. so what did those
> > patches do?"
>
> That is a fine quote!
>
> Sir Robin
My brother is the latest bugbear victim (yesterday). Tho I gave him
a computer with Mandrake installed over a year ago (dual boot) ... his
whole (computer) world revolves around Windoze. He can't imagine
anything else. Even tho I've pointed out to him that the $$$$'s he's
invested (squandered) on M$ applications can easily be replaced by free
software that runs on Linux, boot Winsux only to play games that won't,
and never ever use anything M$ to connect to the Net.
Dan (my brother) is afraid of his computer. He's not even capable of
installin Windoze without a _lot_ of hand holding. He's saddled with
mostly self derived misconceptions and M$ FUD. Sadly he's a typical
windoze user. Since he rates right up there with most M$ users, he
believes he's computer literate. He emailed me askin if he should
delete kernel32.dll since it was causin' all the illegal operation
errors. (I was tempted to say 'good idea' ;) Dan, "But I didn't open
any email attachments" <hehehe> He's got Zone Alarm and Norton AV
runnin, thought he was protected <misconception>.
So here's my take. Dan's typical of 90% of M$ users, most of which
don't even know there's alternatives other than Macs. With M$ havin a
90% share of all desktop users.... 90% of 90% means that M$ will at
least keep ~80% of the desktop business, no matter how good the
alternatives get, how bad and greedy M$ gets, for a long time to come.
Unfortunately many CEO's who make IT procurement decisions are in the
same boat with Dan. MOF, till he retired last year, he was one.
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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