MSSucks

Here's an excerpt nice Microsoft-bashing editorial from the Windows-centric tech site, CNet News.com, regarding the latest Windows worm, MSBlast:

If this were the exception rather than the rule, I would agree that the customer should be held responsible for making sure the latest fixes were downloaded onto a company's computers. But after two decades' worth of Swiss cheese software security, the world's biggest supplier of operating system software has run out of excuses. It took scientists less time to map the human genome.

Here we go again.

Here's a helpful tip: Switch mission-critical computers from repeatedly proved insecure Windows to Linux or another open-source, Unix-based operating system. Not only are they designed to be much more secure, what are the odds that hackers are going to create or exploit security flaws in the software they contribute to and use?