RE: Which Windows OS is Safest

From: Chris Moody (cmoody_at_qualcomm.com)
Date: 06/28/04

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    Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:43:37 -0700 (PDT)
To: Boaz <boclark@cox.net>

    Why not just resolve the security concern altogether and upgrade to
    SuSE/Mandrake/<your distro here> and be done with it.

    -Chris

    On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Boaz wrote:

    > Wow what timing, I was going to post the following, I have a friend that has
    > a small business, and is using Win 98 on two machines, Win 2000 pro on two
    > machines, XP Pro on one machine and XP Personal on another. There is a
    > Linux firewall, and the server is running Novell. Since he needs to upgrade
    > the two machines running Win 98, he want to standardize on one OS.
    >
    > He is leaning toward XP. If I am reading the results of this original post,
    > Win 2000 Pro (patched to current versions) would be a better choice. Is
    > that correct? If so should he also get rid of XP. This is a business that
    > needs security and confidentiality of files.
    >
    > It is not possible to go to any other OS for the workstations other than
    > Windows.
    >
    > Thank you in advance for any replies.
    >
    > Bo Clark
    >
    >
    >
    >
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