Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:10:16 +1030 From: David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au> To: bastill@adam.com.au Cc: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au Subject: Re: Protecting Windows Message-ID: <43EB0E00.6030503@rebel.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200602091432.44622.bastill@adam.com.au> References: <200602091432.44622.bastill@adam.com.au>
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Brian Astill wrote: > program runs on Windows 2000/XP only. Why would anyone in their > right mind NOT port a program as sensible as this to a SECURE OS? I should say that Windows XP is not intrinsically insecure. You can secure it, and I don't mean trivially by removing the network connection, but by shutting down unneeded services, replacing iexplorer.exe with firefox where possible, and so on. I have heard that Dragon Naturally Speaking is very good, and that seems like a good reason to run Windows.
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