And also the CAT examinations last year which were completely ruined because of a Widows virus. And I don't know if this is entirely true, but I heard from a good programmer that the virus was more prone to unauthorized cracked versions of Windows. Kudos to commercial software.
Windows is good. Its not a bad operating system at all. Especially Windows 7. I finally dual-booted with Windows 7 (because I got it as a gift, and because I got a new computer with good graphics which could play my dream games) and was fairly impressed with everything. But then the reason why linux was secure began to become apparent again. Windows had pushed to far into being 'user-friendly' and in this process instead of being a friend to the user it was more of an 'idiot-proof' operating system. A very clear 'bad security' example is that the administrative privileges. You can delete any number of Windows system files without any use of a password. You can never do that in any Linux distros, take the example of our awesome Ubuntu. This is just a basic example of Linux being more secure. The second being open source. I read this awesome article about how a black hat hacker would try to make a virus. He has the whole code in front of him, but so do the ten thousand programmers. He tries to find a flaw to exploit, thousands find that same flaw and write the fix overnight. Go Open Source! Being open source also ensures that the product goes through rigorous testing before being deemed as stable. Its so cool the way it works. 2. German government warns against using MS Explorer > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8463516.stm > snippet "Microsoft rejected the warning, saying that the risk to users > was low and that the browsers' increased security setting would > prevent any serious risk.However, German authorities say that even > this would not make IE fully safe. " > > They also said that moving to another browser like Firefox will make you more vulnerable and MS IE is still the most secure browser. '"Its just one flaw"". See, thats the thing they just use the people like Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (just felt like mentioning this). Most people will still trust Microsoft because they are the most popular. And Microsoft uses this to propagate their products and defame linux and other competitions so that they stay on the top as opposed to working hard to fix problems to stay on the top. As much as Apple's policies are against Linux and other things I believe in, they give me other reasons to absolutely love them whereas Microsoft does not. Just hope that big companies start developing linux versions too. Even if they are commercial like games. It will help Ubuntu to grow. -- Ashutosh Rishi Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
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