"Leon" wrote

Oh good gosh, if Microsoft were not so easy to hack, Apple or Unix would
be
the next "easy" target. Be glad your job is to work with a less sought
after target. If Microsoft and it's inept abilities to curb spam were to
disappear tomorrow your job would become a nightmare 3 or 4 weeks later.
The next most popular OS would be the target just like Microsoft is now.

While I never really bought into that argument because of the inherent
difficulty of propagating malicious code at root level on a properly
administered 'nix box, I do thank MSFT for the ubiquity of modern _PERSONAL_
computing, in spite of itself.

I was on the corporate side of the game when IBM was basically the only show
in town and I $hudder to think of the cost of those days.

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