Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th May 2006 13:53 UTC, submitted by IndigoJo
Alcibiades' recent article hit some sensitive nerves. One of our readers wrote a retort, stating: "The reader will notice that this author glosses over two important issues in attacking the Mac community. One of these is that Windows, at least since 95, has always been notorious for its reliability and security issues. He does not mention the 'Blue Screen of Death' even once. He does not mention the fact that, to run Windows reliably, you need anti-virus software which costs extra (unless it came bundled with the machine), and uses extra system resources. He does not mention the continual updates, which as time goes on, detract from the performance of Windows - or even that the last fresh Windows OS was released as long ago as 2001."
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2005-09-13
//My goodness this platform bashing is becoming tiresome.//
So ... you're annoyed by the OS bashing, yet you then write:
// I wont be up at 2AM trying to retrieve a paper that was attacked by virus's.//
Gotta love your consistency! In any case ... I've been using XP since release, and that's never happened to me. In fact, my box has only seen maybe a half-dozen virii over the past 5 years, and each was quickly and painlessly eliminated by my (free) AV software.