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Jan 1st - Quicktime
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Article on the MoXB phenomenon
PC World said:
January is MoAB (Month of Apple Bugs)
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Yup, Hundreds of patches, just like Windows...
And Windows Service Pack 2 came out about 2-3 years ago genius...
Sorry, I need to stay better informed regarding the most POS OS out there.
OK, so explain the dates to me on those many hundreds of patches.
Learn me biatch.
The last iMac Core Duo Mactel I setup had more megabytes of patches to download than the new PCs I've setup...
You're BOTH morons.
Stinky, Windows is a solid OS, IF... (and here is the BIG frikkin IF) you know how to set it up correctly. Windows is just not a beginners OS, the way the Apple OS is. Sadly, Microsoft would have you think otherwise.
Windows REQUIRES mucho config before you use it. Which is why the Win PC's of folks like Sydasti, B.V. and myself all work... without issues. Hell the only thing to crash on me in the last month was Vista and that was due to a flub on my part, and the iPod.
They are both computers... they both do the same thing... they both download porn and make their users look like idiots. The stupid mac vs. apple virus thing has been beaten to death. Let it go.
lthumbsdown:Actually if you sort by date about 550 of around 600 results are dated from WinSP2 time period onward.
For the end user their brand new 10.4.X vs. WinXP SP2 is a fair comparison and there are more MB of patches necessary for the new OSX machine.
That is reality since I support both platforms in the real world fanboy.
So, ease of use is for beginners? And all of this time, I thought a buggy and poor facimile of the Mac OS was NOT the way to go...
Thanks C!
You don't listen do you?
Try reading my post again and see if you can understand it.
Let me try it this way: You buy a new bike... new DH sled... Top of the line... you ride it out of the box without adjusting the seat height, suspension, or putting air in the tires. And it comes with every accessory you could imagine ALREADY INSTALLED. You go ride it and it sucks.. heavy, won't turn and just sucks. Is it the fault of the bike? Or did you not configure it correctly?
Or simply put: New fork + no adjustment for rider weight and riding style = bad ride.
Now do you get it?
Yes it's Microsofts fault. No I don't like it, and I think they should offer a more stripped down user friendly version of the OS. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't work.
Dude, settle down.
If I was hungover and angry, I'd dance with ya some more, but that's the old me.
Aw man, you're no fun anymore. Now who am I going to argue with? N8? There's no challenge there.Dude, settle down.
If I was hungover and angry, I'd dance with ya some more, but that's the old me.
What's funny is that Microsoft released eight security related patches on December 12th alone.
A total of 78 last year, that's a pace of one every two and a half working days. Of those 71 were rated Critical or Important.
They've released 133 in the last two years, Average of a security bug every three days and 119 of them were rated Critical or Important.
A total of 229 patches in the last four years, or about one every four working days. Of those patches 202 were rated Critical or Important.
Obviously the trend is going up. You could blame it on the ever increasing number of lines of code Microsoft maintains. You could blame it on ever degrading programming staff as the old guard retires and is replaced by people using 3 and 4 GLs. Or something tottaly different. There is no proof of cause and effect either way. What you can't blame it on is market share. Microsoft has a near monolopy on home, business and server os's, and office automation software. They have huge presence in other areas like SQL server software.
Microsoft has a huge code base compared to Apple. I'd wager they both have similar error rates in code. The problem, as was mentioned earlier, is Microsoft's plan of war is to try to bundle as much stuff together to lock you into their products. And they spend a lot of time and effort putting hooks and handles in their code to allow their products to work together well. All of that translates into an OS that has more lines of code and more points of failure. The OS isn't as secure, in large part, because of the huge amount of code.
Unix (the mac OS is BSD UNIX at it's core) and windows have a different design philosophy. In Unix everything is a file, and all programs stand (for the most part) alone. Windows throws everything into a code quesinart end pours out DLL's. The result is a patch for Apple is likely to be a lot bigger than a patch for windows, which may involve a few DLL's. Both approaches have pros and cons. The unix approach is less likely to have one problem cripple or endanger a system. But it's harder on lower level users, programs don't always work together seemsly. The windows approach can be more efficient, and allow programs to work together much more easily and seamlessly for the user. But it can allow viruses and malware to work easier too.
Yes I can believe a mac downloads a large byte total of patches than a winXP sp2 machine. It's by design.
Is Microsoft or Apple evil? No. Are they Different? Yes. Should you be aware of the differences. Yes. Does it mean windows is a bad OS. No really, it just means you have to be aware of the potential problems and protect yourself.
(can you tell I'm bored?)
A total of 78 last year, that's a pace of one every two and a half working days. Of those 71 were rated Critical or Important.
They've released 133 in the last two years, Average of a security bug every three days and 119 of them were rated Critical or Important.
A total of 229 patches in the last four years, or about one every four working days. Of those patches 202 were rated Critical or Important.
Obviously the trend is going up. You could blame it on the ever increasing number of lines of code Microsoft maintains. You could blame it on ever degrading programming staff as the old guard retires and is replaced by people using 3 and 4 GLs. Or something tottaly different. There is no proof of cause and effect either way. What you can't blame it on is market share. Microsoft has a near monolopy on home, business and server os's, and office automation software. They have huge presence in other areas like SQL server software.
Microsoft has a huge code base compared to Apple. I'd wager they both have similar error rates in code. The problem, as was mentioned earlier, is Microsoft's plan of war is to try to bundle as much stuff together to lock you into their products. And they spend a lot of time and effort putting hooks and handles in their code to allow their products to work together well. All of that translates into an OS that has more lines of code and more points of failure. The OS isn't as secure, in large part, because of the huge amount of code.
Unix (the mac OS is BSD UNIX at it's core) and windows have a different design philosophy. In Unix everything is a file, and all programs stand (for the most part) alone. Windows throws everything into a code quesinart end pours out DLL's. The result is a patch for Apple is likely to be a lot bigger than a patch for windows, which may involve a few DLL's. Both approaches have pros and cons. The unix approach is less likely to have one problem cripple or endanger a system. But it's harder on lower level users, programs don't always work together seemsly. The windows approach can be more efficient, and allow programs to work together much more easily and seamlessly for the user. But it can allow viruses and malware to work easier too.
Yes I can believe a mac downloads a large byte total of patches than a winXP sp2 machine. It's by design.
Is Microsoft or Apple evil? No. Are they Different? Yes. Should you be aware of the differences. Yes. Does it mean windows is a bad OS. No really, it just means you have to be aware of the potential problems and protect yourself.
(can you tell I'm bored?)
My operating system is better than your operating system, ha ha wheeze snort.
Yes Microsoft tends to release CVE's individually every month on Tuesdays. Apple is usually every few months in a bundle of CVE's.
To repeat the same for Apple:
What's funny is that Apple released 1 security related CVE patches in Dec., 31 in Nov., 15 in Sept., and 31 in Aug. for an average of about 16 CVE's per month.
Their CVE rate really isn't much different than Microsoft.
Yes, this is the point of MoAB or any other MoXB month.