On 2025-05-10 20:53, Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Thanks Eric!!
My first M$ product was DOS 3.1. As I recall, and it has been a few
years, 2.11 was still out there. That was around 1986....
I got to see a lot since my commodore 64 days...
Still do not understand how an Apple is less vulnerable when not being
upgraded. I know most attacks are om M$ and the Web.... However....
Keith,
There is the realization in the apple community that everyone will, at
some point, be forced to upgrade. There isn’t a lot of noise simply
because it is already a known fact (and apple doesn’t charge for OS
upgrades). MS got into a lot of trouble and started losing gobs of
money when they tried to insist that everyone pay for OS upgrades on
every upgrade. Honestly, if it were up to me, I would have the dev
teams for both apple and MS working on solving all the old bugs that
never seem to go away, regardless of major version. There are some bugs
in both OS environments that go back to very early days of each (in the
case of windows, a few such bugs go back as far as the msDos based
systems using win 3.1).
Oh, and as for MS demanding upgrades, they are part of the same
consortium that brought you the extensible firmware interface and are
also involved heavily in the trusted platform module project (which is
why win11 might not install on machines older than some pre-described
date). Also, MS does sell their OS in the retail markets for those who
custom build their own machines. However, their biggest money maker
happens to be the licensing scheme they use (and volume licenses can
cost as much as $2,000 a unit yearly for corporate environments). That
also applies to government contracts (ever been to the SSA or even the
state dept of economic security? Virtually every desktop is a windows
machine with some kind of back end server setup for in house storage,
security, database and other things.
Anyway, that’s my take on the whole apple vs. MS vs Linux contest that
has been going on since the early 2000’s.
-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Historical References
Dept.
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