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Windows Kills More Than Most Wars (But the Media Casually Ignores the Death Toll of Microsoft)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 03, 2024

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On the left one can see one of the latest examples of Windows misused. If it was deployed to some LEGO toy, OK... keep this thing out of airports and aeronautics.

Windows kills, it kills children, and millions of patients are denied care/service due to Windows. So how many people need to die before the media becomes more vocal about the underlying issue and the core cause?

As an associate put it, "every day the same story [but] different targets" and yesterday I spoke about instruments in operating rooms and how some occasionally go missing (not necessarily inside patients' bodies). They have some contingencies (spares for instance) and they have generators to defy grid-related issues (electric outages), but when someone told me about these failsafes I reminded her they still use WINDOWS and therefore surgeries have many serious risks. This week there's this report about cybersecurity issues in the health sector, but the site is sponsored by Microsoft, so it won't tell people to delete Microsoft.

"Not just Windows (tm)" is the issue here, "but Windows(tm) while connected to the damn Internet," the associate said. "Actually it is not the Internet which is at fault. It is the damn Windows(tm) which is not fit for purpose."

"One could hope that the [above] FNN article is about a call to remove the Microsofters and their gimmicky products from the federal procurement pipeline. The more likely possibility is that FOSS, and all non-Microsoft systems, will be locked out because they lack 'CloudStrike' and similar after-market add-on tickboxes. Box tickers love Microsoft and the after-market add-ons. So do duct tapers, as it is always the same work again and again and again. So to empire builders as Microsoft and its after market add-ons increase budgets and bloat staff sizes. Microsoft is NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE [and that's the] key legal phrase for [this] topic."

Going back to the operating room stories I was talking about last night, surgeries aren't some thing you can just put "on hold" and Andy F. recently told us some stories about people having to reboot or having critical Windows-specific problems in life-threatening scenarios, even operations. People who work in the NHS told him that. It's actually happening all the time. The first time I went for an MRI scan (volunteering for a colleague's experiment around 2004) they had Windows issues and I had to go back home, then return another day. Some people with serious health issues were scheduled for a scan that day. They lost their spot. My understanding is that those scanners have since then moved to GNU/Linux. What took so long?

The bottom line is, many people are dying, they die due to Microsoft, and the media fails us by not informing us and failing to even name the principal culprit. Notice how 30 or so publishers tried to blame "Linux" for an Apple issue that impacted almost no GNU/Linux users (because servers aren't connected to printers). This is how they peddle the whataboutism, trying to sell this false proposition that Linux is just as damaged as Windows and thus there's no point/purpose to abandoning Microsoft. It's a very common fallacy that Microsofters promote in the media, even if they lie through their teeth.

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