Bashing

Microsoft/Windows bashing the favorite past time for people with either low intelligence, or the need to make themselves look good. Lets look at it from a techs point of view. Windows 7 loads faster then W2K, XP, and Vista. It has better security measures then the previous three. And although Areo was "stolen" from Apple it is a nice enhancement to the Windows System. Microsoft Greedy? I am sick of this arguement. Microsoft and anyone else has a right to protect their copy righted software this includes attempting to keep the software piracy down. You want free software move to Linux, but stay away from the control freak company known as Apple, since they will not only charge you more for the items purchased they will tell you what you can install or not install on your computer.

In summary give it a rest and go back to school to learn how to write a proper article.

re: To clarify the earlier

Simple reply to both statements. To start the OS cults are in all three of the major Operating Systems and are actually quite irriatating for true professionals who deal with one or the other if not two of the three on a daily basis. The "fanboys" of Linux and Apple tend to drive most professionals up the wall since most have no clue as to what it takes to be inside a real IT shop and their only claim is that Linux and or Apple OS's are more secure and the so called free software. As I'm not going into the whole security issue lets just say less users mean less attacks therefore a basic non-issue for Linux and Apple.

Fortunately, open source means everyone has access, so many can fail without sinking everyone else.

This is only true to a point. One major failure in any organization can create issues for the entire organization. Although the open source community as a hole can and will survive long into the future, major set backs caused by either the mistakes of beint cultish in opinions in the world of software or having a group with in the community that have very little knowledge in the language of various programming languages writing code that is full of holes that have to be patch by the experts in a programming language.

In the end nothing is right or wrong in the world of software development. Wheather it is Microsoft and Apple or the Open Source community they all have some good ideas on how to proceed.

The article itself however was not on this issue, it was on the very issue that sets people at the throats of each other. The cultish tendencies of a group (aka fanboys) to say we are right and everyone else is wrong. Something that me and others IT professionals find rather distastefule to say the least. Since I have training in Microsoft and Linux and my degree is in Computer Science I think I can say this. Both have good ideas that would help the other if the they would do more talking instead of posing.

Secure?

"People, who like Linux, like yours truly, often harp on the fact that Linux is more secure than Windows."

Linux is not more secure it is not attack as often due to the low percentage of users both home and corporate that use it on the desk top. Do Not make statements that can't be backed up. As my Linux instructor points out at the beginning of the quarter. The Linux Kernal is open source there-fore anyone can search through it for attack vectors. IF Linux were to actually become a main stream desktop the attacks would increase and due to the open source nature would become the most vunerable OS on the market. You logic rather than fanboy dreams it works better and you don't look quite as ignorant with these columns.

Either Way

Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.

Back Ups

As someone stated on another article. The first three rules of computers.

1. Backup
2. Backup
3. Backup