Comments on: Microsoft’s Latest Security Failures on the Web http://techrights.org/2010/01/11/worms-on-the-wire-iis/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 03 Jan 2017 02:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Dennis Murczak http://techrights.org/2010/01/11/worms-on-the-wire-iis/comment-page-1/#comment-77949 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:10:14 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=25183#comment-77949 Windows is good for exactly one purpose: Running legacy desktop software/infrastructure. Trying to accomplish anything else will result in a neverending mess, because the OS has originally been designed to run application software on single-user non-networked workstations. Yes, they slapped on more modern concepts like UAC and user/file system permissions afterwards, but exploit just one hole in that layer and you end up in a very easy to manipulate system space.

Unix on the other hand grew up in a client/server world over the course of 40 years, and Linux inherited its most important concepts. It can be trusted to perform very solidly at multiuser networking. Fortunately, the majority of admins understands that.

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