There are lawsuits open about windows 10 destroying user data. Windows of all flavors has given me nothing but pain. Microsoft is not the benchmark of quality software. Most of their real innovations are in the business model space.
At least people know who to sue when Windows destroys data, not sure who to sue when distribution X does it.
In what system can you sue when something some came at no cost, no warranty (express or implied) and in a good faith effort to help everyone at the personal expense of the developer?
If that system exists, it sounds disgusting and unethical. Paying for something changes the nature of the transaction.
When can people sue Apple for HFS+ issues. Those must be multiple of times higher then anything caused by Windows 10?
Re:Curl is C
by madphrodite on Monday March 27, 2017 @10:45AM
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And the last windows 7 update black screened my pc and left me in limbo till I was able to restore. What exactly is your point? Windows is not a standard to be held higher than..well anything.
The parent commenter used Windows 10 as an example and you used Windows...7. His point, which is that Microsoft actively researches and implements OS-level security improvements, hasn't been rebutted by your statement about Windows 7.
Windows 7 was released in 2009. There are substantial proactive improvements that Microsoft cannot feasibly backport to older OS versions even if they're still within the support period, and the corporate culture was simply different when Windows 7 was released.
Counter-point: Windows 10 updates locked up 2 of my machines - Microsoft has a tough time implementing most things properly...
Re:Curl is C
by madphrodite on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @11:54AM
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Substantial proactive improvements not relevant to the same build|OS which comes full circle to the linux comment which is so hated. That is: anyone with source and knowledge can make it work and those without...blackscreen.
Re:Curl is C
by madphrodite on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:10AM
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Did you know that I can still run, patch and support linux distributions written in 2009 if I want to? Did you know that?
I think the vast majority of people would say Windows has been getting much better in security since the days of XP. People can choose Linux, BSD, MacOS or Windows and have a good choice that is reasonably secure.
Latest examples, Windows 10 secure kernel and Device Driver protection.
https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/36925
Or the new Windows USB stack, written in the P language.
https://github.com/p-org/P
UNIXes, not so much beyond patching C exploits.