__/ [ John Locke ] on Sunday 11 March 2007 17:02 \__
> On 10 Mar 2007 21:00:50 -0800, "Rex Ballard" <rex.ballard@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>Sadly, Microsoft actually creates the back doors which have been the
>>source of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of damages due to
>>identity theft, viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware, malware, and
>>most recently, bogus certificates and certificate authority servers.
>>
>
> Sadly, this is what keeps most of us Windows techs in business.
mike <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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| in addition to the outsourcing of jobs, let's not forget the
| considerable number of people (outside of microsoft) who left the
| computer field because they found it too much of an insult to their
| intelligence to be spending all their time supporting that which is
| always and by far the weakest link in any computer infrastructure --
| microsoft. i've watched over two decades the inverse relationship
| between prestigious jobs in the computer field vs. the growth of
| microsoft such that computer science now ranks near the bottom of the
| academic desires of college students. and who can blame them,
| working in computers has become synonymous with supporting microsoft
| and one can find a more rewarding and respectable career as janitor
| at the local sewage & wastewater treatment plant.
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