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Old 08-24-2011, 08:26 PM  
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Originally Posted by raymor View Post
Wow, really? Linux has supported big memory for over a decade.
I knew Windows was about a decade behind on security, just starting to experiment with mandatory access control, but I didn't realize they were that far behind on hardware support. Do you guys still have to bring the whole system down just to update a desktop app? I remember in Win95 I had to reboot about three times just to update IE.
naw it's not like that.

Only thing that has ever asked for a reboot was a large update or antivirus software installation.

A lot of win7's core is buil from unix. It's not that they couldn't make windows as secure, they just couldn't make access control easy for the end user to do anything with in a gui environment. Even linux distros still have shortcommings that way. Lets fae it though, windows users are mostly scared to death or anything that isn't wrapped in a gui. As am I. I can't stand having to do anything outside a UI.
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