> From Brian, May 12 11:01:29 2004

(Originally posted to SLUG by John Clarke)

"I won't bother trying to set anyone straight as to my rather
complex feelings about Microsoft, but I must admit that I do hate
Windows because it has so shamefully lowered our expectations of
what quality  software should be."
        -- Nicholas Petreley, Infoworld, 4-Feb-2000

"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining
armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos
neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate
technology, led them into it in the first place."
        -- Douglas Adams on Windows '95.

"I call Windows the petri dish of choice on the Internet. It's the
opportunity to download a virus from anywhere and infect corporate
information."
        -- Scott McNealy

Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise
would be a topic appropriate for an investigative report in the
field of psychology or marketing, not an article on information
technology.
        -- John Kirch

Security experts have been saying for years that the security of
the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there
is a rigorous government certification confirming this.
  --  Dr Jonathan S. Shapiro, http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html

"... Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according
to  everybody is the ``most reliable Windows ever.'' To me, this is
like  saying that asparagus is ``the most articulate vegetable
ever.''"
        -- Dave Barry

Call me a cynic, but for me "much more stable than the last version
of Windows" is not exactly a ringing endorsement.
        -- James Riden

The only sensible way to estimate the stability of a Windows
server is to power it down and try it out as a step ladder.
        -- Robert Crawford

 ... wanted me to be a Win2K admin with "emphasis" on security.
That's like a job as a SCUBA diver with an "emphasis" on keeping
things dry.
        -- Anthony de Boer

To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it;
to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it.
	-- Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus

"It is grossly irresponsible to connect a Windows machine directly
to the net."
	-- John Wiltshire (SLUG)