Linked by Adam S on Wed 9th Jul 2008 12:59 UTC, submitted by Caffeine Deprived
Even if you love it, there are some things for which Windows is clearly a silly solution. Richard Stiennon lists 10 of the worst uses of Windows he's seen, including using it to display a static green arrow over the open TSA security lanes at Detroit Metro.
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Only now with Windows server core does Microsoft understand the concept of a modular OS. Windows perhaps would be a good candidate for the tasks outlined, however having the full desktop and the million other services installed by default just doesn't make sense. Fingers crossed that in the future the desktop version of windows follows some of the ideas of it's server cousin and become more modular and only have installed the modules needed.
However in reality everyone knows that unix/linux is perfectly suited to these kinds of tasks, want a DNS, simple just install the DNS service, no other junk needs to be installed. You are left with an OS which is super fast and has a very low surface of attack.