On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Leland Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > Windows is proprietary, and once I develop an application with a > Microsoft product, I'm locked into a never ending cycle of churn. I > never upgraded to Vista, but I suspect one of the main forces that drove > Microsoft to create Viata was the need to catch up with security feature > that had long been available in Linux/Unix.
Security Windows has been as good as Linux/Unix since Windows NT (the creators of NT were the VMS guys). In some ways it's better (more fine grained). There are 2 problems as I see it: - The default after an install is to assign the user full admin rights. - Backwards compatibility. There was tons of badly written software developed for DOS/Windows 95 etc and Microsoft tried to remain compatible. For example, writing to the Program Files or Windows folder. Lots of apps store their configuration data there, forcing users to switch to a power user or administrator. > Also, desktop application > developed for Windows will not port cross platform to Linux/Unix. There's quite a few cross-platform toolkits. e.g. GTK, QT, even .NET/Mono. -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
