Novell: NT Public Service Announcement

Discussion in 'Linux, BSD and Other OS's' started by megamaced, Aug 26, 2006.

  1. megamaced

    megamaced Geek Geek Geek!

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    Check out this rather funny video promoting Novell/SUSE

    It's all part of a new campaign to get people off NT and on to Linux
     
  2. Anti-Trend

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    It's sad but true; I talk to NT4 users all the time. No more updates, but they figure it was never very secure to begin with (there's some truth to that).

    [ot]What most people just don't understand is that all variations of Windows 2000, XP & 2003 are all just NT5. :p You didn't "migrate off of NT" when you went to 200(3), you migrated from NT4 to NT5 or 5.1! Sheesh. :D[/ot]

    I liked their Windows security whitepaper better than the ad campaign, personally.
     
  3. kenji san

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    Nice read and funny if it wasn't all true. :) It's good to see Novell standing up to the microsoft machine.
     
  4. Anti-Trend

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    Which part isn't true, exactly? The whitepaper only had 4 basic points:

    1. Windows was designed as a single user operating system.
    2. Windows was designed without security as a primary goal.
    3. Microsoft's competitive strategy led it to embed more functionality and application integration into Windows in an attempt to thwart the competition, resulting in a very large and complex operating system with many highly dependent pieces of code.
    4. Microsoft's basic lack of attention to security after the initial Windows implementation.

    I thought they went easy on them personally, but I guess they went with the K.I.S.S. methodology. :)
     
  5. kenji san

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    No, I meant if it were fiction it would be funny. Windows (lack of) security isn't so funny.
     
  6. Anti-Trend

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    Ahh, I understand what you meant now. Good point; it'd be more funny if less people ran it. But marketing sells better than quality (for reference: AOL, Earthlink, Dell, McDonalds, Best Buy, Brittany Spears, Backstreet Boys, etc.)
     

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