Bill Gates didn't 'invent a new computer'. He purchased PC DOS from Seattle Computer Products, then turned around and sold it to IBM. A sound business decision, but that doesn't make him a medical or vaccination expert.
To be fair... all operating systems are vulnerable to viruses, there are just more for windows because it has the largest market share, both for home users and for business environements where entire buildings need hundreds of networked computers. Hackers target the mass market.
Yes and no. Windows is only the biggest OS in computer desktop use. Linux is the biggest computer OS in all the other areas, from super computers, servers (the internet mostly runs in Linux), mobile and embedded.
Hackers have a big incentive to target Linux and yet it is safer. The reason is because, while not perfect, Linux is technically superior to Windows.
In Windows defense, it is true that targeting desktop users is easier than targeting sysadmins taking care of servers and mobiles are in general more Walled Garden than desktop.
Still and admiting any OS has vulnerabilities, Linux is technically superior.
Linux is a open operating system. Its code is regularly reviewed by the community. This is the primary reason its more secure. In many ways Windows10 has adopted many of the concepts of Linux so I'm not sure we can call it "technical superior". I could point out any part of the OS that works the same in many ways.
I use them all though. I have an OSX laptop, a Win10 laptop, Ubuntu 18 on a laptop and about 20 or so VMs running every Linux distro imaginable and many Windows 2016 servers, Centos and Ubuntu server.
Yes on updates that create more vulnerabilities than they fix. I have stuck with windows 7 since 2007 when it was a free download for us to test and I upgraded from windows 2003.
Him and Steve Jobs are the biggest frauds ever. Both of those fags were just marketing assholes that stole/bought other people's work and put a new name on it and made a fortune.
Good for you, looking up something ONCE and settling the subject. Sorry, but everything that Steve Jobs was credited for inventing was made by someone else, and it was usually from an outside company.
"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." -Steve Jobs
Don't forget that he sold it to IBM, then sold MS-DOS for clones. He did worse with Windows and OS/2. He may be a good businessman, but he isn't exactly a moral one.
He was a lucky opportunist with a willing audience that craved some standard they could all agree on. The only thing you can give him credit on is going all out to take advantage of that situation, and then locking the business market in with basically free OS licenses and then milking the Office package licenses and server back end.
Shrewd and ruthless, sure, but it in no way should give him license to try and run the world, just because he has a big bank account.
Look I'm on board with Bill Gates is trying to be the literal antichrist bringing about the mark of the beast, but I think some credit where credit is due. Bill Gates saw something back then that is obvious today, but completely non-obvious back then. Back then people still thought in terms of physical goods as being where the value was. Computer hardware was the value, software was just some component, an implementation detail. Nobody was thinking about "platforms." Bill Gates saw before anybody else that the money was in the platform. The quality of the platform didn't really matter, which is why he could go buy a platform from a company and license that platform to IBM who didn't see it as a threat since they controlled the hardware. But he was not a lucky opportunist, he saw something nobody else did and built an empire around it.
Bill Gates didn't 'invent a new computer'. He purchased PC DOS from Seattle Computer Products, then turned around and sold it to IBM. A sound business decision, but that doesn't make him a medical or vaccination expert.
An expert on computer viruses maybe, seeing as how Windows has always been vulnerable to them.
To be fair... all operating systems are vulnerable to viruses, there are just more for windows because it has the largest market share, both for home users and for business environements where entire buildings need hundreds of networked computers. Hackers target the mass market.
Yes and no. Windows is only the biggest OS in computer desktop use. Linux is the biggest computer OS in all the other areas, from super computers, servers (the internet mostly runs in Linux), mobile and embedded.
Hackers have a big incentive to target Linux and yet it is safer. The reason is because, while not perfect, Linux is technically superior to Windows.
In Windows defense, it is true that targeting desktop users is easier than targeting sysadmins taking care of servers and mobiles are in general more Walled Garden than desktop.
Still and admiting any OS has vulnerabilities, Linux is technically superior.
Safer, but not safe. Linux is not invulnerable to viruses and malware.
Linux is a open operating system. Its code is regularly reviewed by the community. This is the primary reason its more secure. In many ways Windows10 has adopted many of the concepts of Linux so I'm not sure we can call it "technical superior". I could point out any part of the OS that works the same in many ways.
I use them all though. I have an OSX laptop, a Win10 laptop, Ubuntu 18 on a laptop and about 20 or so VMs running every Linux distro imaginable and many Windows 2016 servers, Centos and Ubuntu server.
Bill Gates can't even vaccinate Windows
Kek, I'm gonna start using that one.
Yes on updates that create more vulnerabilities than they fix. I have stuck with windows 7 since 2007 when it was a free download for us to test and I upgraded from windows 2003.
You know we're screwed when we have to rely on Bill Gates to fight viruses.
Him and Steve Jobs are the biggest frauds ever. Both of those fags were just marketing assholes that stole/bought other people's work and put a new name on it and made a fortune.
Good for you, looking up something ONCE and settling the subject. Sorry, but everything that Steve Jobs was credited for inventing was made by someone else, and it was usually from an outside company.
"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." -Steve Jobs
The last thing he worked on was Microsoft Basic (before MS/PCDOS).
Now you know why he stopped coding. 🤣
basic is underrated
Well he did end up marrying Microsoft Bob's coder, Melinda. So he married a coder and also a Microsoft employee.
Don't forget that he sold it to IBM, then sold MS-DOS for clones. He did worse with Windows and OS/2. He may be a good businessman, but he isn't exactly a moral one.
Agreed.
He was a lucky opportunist with a willing audience that craved some standard they could all agree on. The only thing you can give him credit on is going all out to take advantage of that situation, and then locking the business market in with basically free OS licenses and then milking the Office package licenses and server back end.
Shrewd and ruthless, sure, but it in no way should give him license to try and run the world, just because he has a big bank account.
Look I'm on board with Bill Gates is trying to be the literal antichrist bringing about the mark of the beast, but I think some credit where credit is due. Bill Gates saw something back then that is obvious today, but completely non-obvious back then. Back then people still thought in terms of physical goods as being where the value was. Computer hardware was the value, software was just some component, an implementation detail. Nobody was thinking about "platforms." Bill Gates saw before anybody else that the money was in the platform. The quality of the platform didn't really matter, which is why he could go buy a platform from a company and license that platform to IBM who didn't see it as a threat since they controlled the hardware. But he was not a lucky opportunist, he saw something nobody else did and built an empire around it.
He also stole the Windows idea from Xerox.