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 From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Historical References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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