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Linux Versus Microsoft

Linux Versus Microsoft

Los Angeles versus New York City, Lowe's versus Home Depot, Chevy versus Ford... it is bound to go on forever because it is the nature of humans. However, there are so many factors to consider with Linux versus Microsoft that while a comparison is fair, a match up is absurd. I read articles in newspapers and magazines referencing open source, free, Linux and proprietary, expensive, Microsoft Windows. This is like rating the content of two books by their titles.

Windows is installed on over ninety percent of the desktop computers in the world. Microsoft and various other companies spend billions of dollars a year designing anti-virus, anti-spyware, and security updates for Windows and its components. Does this make Windows better than Linux? What a ridiculous question. Nearly every security appliance that ships ready to plug in comes with one form of Linux or another. There are less than one hundred known viruses for Linux. So few, in......


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