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Posted 30 April 2010 - 11:11 PM
I DO have a query re a Virus - the seemingly perennial Tr/Dropper.gen - for elsewhere, but thought I'd say hello and stir the pot a bit....
1. I Use Linux a lot, nowadays. It has become a very human-usable system, especially since Ubuntu arrived and even better - Kubuntu.
It is free. It is fast. It is easy to drive, now. THERE IS NO VIRUS PROBLEM.
So what keeps Microsoft going?????
Except for a tiny few programs like DragonDictate and NoteTabPro, why would anyone use it?
Answers:
1. HABIT. It IS hard for an old dog to learn new tricks. AND
2. There is no money advantage in the PC Assembly business to sell boxes that run on free things.
3. Even pros need to keep it online to test their programs/designs as 90% of the world uses MS Internet Explorer.
AS a lazy writer, I couldn't go on without DragonDictate - only runs under XP VERY well and in MS Word.
So, I'm still stuck with it.
As a multi -website owner, I HAVE to keep designing/writing for I.E.
I keep forgetting that I'm in XP and I.E. and go doing things "out there" and of course, get infected regularly.
By now, by all logic, this VERY handy BBS should be outta business and the monster viral problem solved by us all going to Unix/Linux.
Even Apple VERY cunningly did - and did it so cunningly/well that people are paying 5 TIMES the cost for the same internals, just in a pink box.
Oh well, back to work ............ HELP!!!!!!
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