at home I'm all linux now, even the wife and kids pc's, except the laptop still dual boots XP for the rare windows only task (it defaults to boot to linux).
however, at work i still have about 20 Win2k pc's and they do every bit as well as the XP ones I have. Not only that, I also have about 15 win9x PC's running a custom web broswer ("embeded" IE control in a VB app) locked down with policy files and working hard as kiosks for the intranet, on P166 and P200's no less. eventualy these will be replaced with diskless linux systems but they do the task just fine as is. security? private lan with no internet access and locked cases on the kiosks, and users can't even browse the HD so forget about running unautorized apps. last worm/virus on the whole lan was almost 2 years ago. security isn't about what OS's are on your lan, it's how you manage them. Oh, almost forgot the 2 DOS 6.22 pc's as well, one a 386, and neither can be upgraded due to software from companies that are out of buisness and no drop in replacements are available. you wanna spend $200,000 plus user training just to get rid of a 386 that works? yeah me neither.
MS can keep vista for a while, I'll wait till I can't get a windows pc without it or my boss says we need an app that requires it.
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at home I'm all linux now, even the wife and kids pc's, except the laptop still dual boots XP for the rare windows only task (it defaults to boot to linux).
however, at work i still have about 20 Win2k pc's and they do every bit as well as the XP ones I have. Not only that, I also have about 15 win9x PC's running a custom web broswer ("embeded" IE control in a VB app) locked down with policy files and working hard as kiosks for the intranet, on P166 and P200's no less. eventualy these will be replaced with diskless linux systems but they do the task just fine as is. security? private lan with no internet access and locked cases on the kiosks, and users can't even browse the HD so forget about running unautorized apps. last worm/virus on the whole lan was almost 2 years ago. security isn't about what OS's are on your lan, it's how you manage them. Oh, almost forgot the 2 DOS 6.22 pc's as well, one a 386, and neither can be upgraded due to software from companies that are out of buisness and no drop in replacements are available. you wanna spend $200,000 plus user training just to get rid of a 386 that works? yeah me neither.
MS can keep vista for a while, I'll wait till I can't get a windows pc without it or my boss says we need an app that requires it.