Sometimes it's better to pay for employee training and for a complete Linux transition than to have all of your confidential data being exposed to Microsoft and their advertising partners. In fact, I predict that we will begin to see more and more businesses and governments transitioning to Linux just because of privacy concerns. Governments shouldn't be using Windows anyway, you can't have the computing sovereignty of your country in the hands of a foreign company.
What? Any admin on any network working with windows 7 machine can control what gets updated on any windows 7 computer.
No chance. Various British Government departments have tried Linux in pilot studies, and to my knowledge have all run away screaming. I've personally worked on the Windows re-rollouts.
I would be pretty surprised if anything that handles sensitive data works with Windows. The various administration departments are probably on Windows, that's not the point.
Well then prepare to be surprised. Sensitive data all over Windows systems. Health Service Systems. Police & Criminal Evidence. Civil Service. Social Security. Forensic Science. I've worked on them all as a contractor, and I used to be a Police Officer. The tinfoil hattery over Windows is getting hysterical. If it's properly secured by people who know what they're doing, then no dramas.
It's not that, it's just that leaving your entire country's IT infrastructure in the hands of a private foreign company is, well... bad. It's not a good decision and it can never be. Every country needs to have full control over it's own IT infrastructure.
No you don't, that's a closed source system, you have no idea what is actually happening under the hood.
My dear chap. Her Majesty's Government pay some very clever people awfully big salaries to find out EXACTLY what is happening under the hood. Trust me on that.
It doesn't work like this, it takes 1 line of code to expose the system to a potential vulnerability and you have no way of detecting that without the source code.
Again, you literally have no idea what you are talking about. In 2003 there was an attempt to introduce a backdoor in the source code of Linux. Do you know what it was ? Code: if ((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && (current->uid = 0)) retval = -EINVAL; Can you see the problem ? And if you do see it, you would realize that a backdoor like this is 100% undetectable in a closed source software environment.
@ashmicro: When it comes to the enterprise (LTSB) edition of Windows 10, I'd have to say that I would agree with you. It's been pretty much locked down solid. For Windows 10 home edition, I disagree. :MJ
@Mannix: Please stop calling other members stupid. You're only asking for trouble. Also, introducing a tiny sliver of C / C++ / C# code like that which shows no context at all is unfair. Is it the exception that you're waiting for because MS didn't implement SEH? Is there a point that the code jumps to? None of that is clear here. I understand that emotions are running high, but let's keep it civil. @ashmicro: I know that you were slighted, but I'm asking you to please let it go. P.S. Will one of the Linux programmers correct me if i'm wrong, but does this code prepare a huge buffer for a buffer overrun exploit?