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Comment by jeroenhd | Hacker News Reader

I know hating on Windows is popular and I myself detest what Microsoft is doing to their operating system, but Windows is still a better OS than its competition for most people. This is reflected in its worldwide market share.

Windows can actually be managed by am IT department and has a massive security ecosystem. If a corporation with more than ten people has to deal with my data, I'd much rather see them use Windows than anything else.

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> Windows is still a better OS than its competition for most people. This is reflected in its worldwide market share

If people chose things according to what is better, marketing would not exist.

Also, for every AD/GPO key on security there are 2000 ways either overriding them or doing huge harms with Office macros, OLE calls, VBscript, OCX compat calls and so on.

anthk here has an actual clue

>> and has a massive security ecosystem.

lol and we all know why

And yet useless because 90% of compability modes will send such security to /dev/null. Office macros, OCX, Active X compat plugins for IE11 (they still are), VBA, VBScript executions, screensavers as they stated, drop-in replacement DLL's, security overrides because that w9x doesn't work with admin rights...

And so on.

WinNT would be secure if MS ditched Office Macros (or at least hard-sandboxed them) and ran all w9x software on seamless VM's.

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