Top 10 worst uses for Windows

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29644

haha. Found this article on Network World. Some funny, some scary! such as medical equipment...

here's 11-20: http://digg.com/microsoft/Ten_More_Stupid_Uses_for_Windows

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undomiel

It seems more like an anti-Microsoft/Windows than to really have a basis. Number 7 I'm personally familiar with as the machines here at work use XP Embedded. Never had a problem with Windows on them. Segregate them from the internet and the rest of the network and only give access to the file server where necessary and they have absolutely zero problems. Well ok that's false. They have problems. But not from Windows. From the crappy CNC software made for the machines.

RTmarc

Ummm, correct me if I'm wrong, but number 4 is BS. Everything I ever read regarding the TJX incident is that people sat in the parking lot and used a directional antennae to access the TJX network via a misconfigured wireless network tied to their internal systems. While they may have exploited Windows vulnerabilities to gain the information, isn't the misconfigured wireless network tied to their internal systems the real problem on that one? Can you really expect someone to properly patch Windows system that does that??

undomiel

Looks like a study in why not to use WEP.

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/496

snadam

My gripe is with number 11...

if that SINGLE air traffic controller server went down, and its an extremely critical piece of hardware, and the controller station was down for hours; Why dont they have a hot spare on hand?!?!? Where is the redundancy? It sounds like a bad implementation/installation more than anything.

jworley

I agree. it definitely seems very anti-Microsoft. To be honest, I really don't think the list was intended to be taken COMPLETELY seriously. It's all in good fun (to me).

HeroPsycho

If Windows is so unstable, why do some big bad EMC storage controllers run WinXP?

Because it's stable. What a bunch of crap...

snadam

jworley wrote:

I agree. it definitely seems very anti-Microsoft. To be honest, I really don't think the list was intended to be taken COMPLETELY seriously. It's all in good fun (to me).

Oh im sure the article was supposed to be in some good fun. However, the commenting patrons at the bottom of the article seem to think different. They see a BSOD and immediately think an OS is crap....

Sie

At the end of the day all technologies are useless if they arnt implemented in the right way.