Is Windows a Virus --------------------------- No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:
1.They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.
2.Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.
3.Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.
4.Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. - Sigh.. Windows does that, too.
5.Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. - Yup, Windows does that, too.
Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences: Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.
So Windows is not a virus.
It's a bug.
Cheers Mark
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There are jokes on every thing in this world and beyond. Windows is a good candidate for laughing stock and so is GWB, BC, et. al. Let us not forget, its biggest *by-product* is a man, richest in world along with may be thousands of other millionaires. Also Windows is a great product "when it works" - in fact it really does, no joking (statistics inclusive). If we think that the earstwhile unix would have brought us here then atleast I am ready to rethink..... I do have great admiration for *nix world, after all, robustness is a great attribute.
On 06 Oct 2005 08:27:13 +0100, Colin Paul Adams colin@colina.demon.co.uk wrote:
"Mark" == Mark Jordan mark.theexile@gmail.com writes:
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Mark> So Windows is not a virus. Mark> It's a bug.
That analysis is all very well, but why the [joke] in the subject line? -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire
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