From: "Geo" 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:44abb303$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> You are comparing a very old OS (only OS, no office apps or anything else
> for that matter other than email and browser, and a browser that wont work
> today on most sites no less) against a modern UNIX variant anyway, so it's
> no even close to a fair comparison.

XPsp2 plus all post sp2 hotfixes is 376mb.

> It's more than just exploits that the patches are for btw, but anyway, I
> don't know anyone that thinks that other than the same kind of people that
> think Windows is invulnerable.

You can't build a skyscraper if they keep changing the foundation. It's the
same with complex computer systems, things break if you keep updating
everything.

I mean you know how service packs always seem to break something, how can
you keep systems functioning when everything changes every 3 months?

Geo.

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