Make move to open source
With the launch of Microsoft's Vista operating system Jan. 30, I can't help but wonder why people have such unrelenting faith in the faulted system.
According to news articles published in December 2006, a month before Vista's official debut, Russian hackers had posted information about a key vulnerability in the system, forcing Microsoft techies to scramble for an embarrassing emergency response. Such a security breach allows hackers to act as the superusers of a computer system, giving them the "clearance" needed to change whatever their little hacker hearts desire.
For now, I wonder why more people haven't heard of a sexy little Finnish operating system called Linux, a free, highly compatible, highly functional system for which there exist only 40 known viruses, none of which have become damaging to businesses. As a reference point, Windows has a known 15,000 viruses, many of which have toppled entire data systems.
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