http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?postid=531
September 20, 2006
Securing Windows: why Microsoft is fighting its third-party partners
Posted 17 hours ago on September 20, 2006
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The bottom line is that the mass-market, consumer-oriented PC security industry is bloated out of all proportion. Users should be able to do reasonably secure computing out-of-the-box, and with non-Windows systems – OS X, Linux – they already can. I am right behind Microsoft in its efforts to extend that to Windows systems as well.
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Like it or not, if you accept Microsoft, then you get insecurity. Anyone thinking about Vista has to make the devil’s bargain. When you factor in the cost of an upgrade, I’m going to linux. Boot from a live cd and what can be infected? Until we get computing appliances or we have true web-based computing, it should be good enough, safe enough, and smart enough to be on Linux.
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Going back to the old days of a disk oriented operating system. Boot off a Linue Live CD. And, be immune to virus infection.
Reinke Faces Life 
How true. I personally run Ubuntu on all of my computers except this one, which I run Xp for some of the more intricate 3d rendering applications (just a hobby). I can’t wait until software vendors start making Linux apps more mainstream. Which once again, we can thank Microsoft for..
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