Top Ten Worst Uses for Windows
July 11, 2008
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This made for a pretty funny read this morning.
The regular reader will know that I am a user of Microsoft Windows, and that I do find some merit in the OS. At the same time, I can admit that it is hardly a perfect operating system, that it does have more than a few flaws about it, and that its security (especially!) leaves much to be desired. Hardening Windows is something that troubles me continually in my current profession as an IT specialist, because for as many protective layers as I might put in place on any installation of the OS, there is always something which seems able to slip through.
Windows is fine for many applications, but not as the control system behind critical services and monitoring equipment. Having a Windows-based SCADA application is in several ways questionable, and using Windows as the OS for banking hardware is flagrant stupidity. And don’t we all love it when the various digital advertisment boards in our cities display blue screens or Windows error messages, instead of their usual stream of ads?
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