Hello there. I think that if you all want have secure servers - there's many alternate OS'es for example, Linux (Mandrake, RedHat, SuSe - these are most knewn Linux distributtions), OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD(these are free well knewn Unixes) or commercial like AIX, HP OpenVMS(this one is used in military;). Most of them, sepeccialy Linux and *bsd fix vulnerabillities in a days not in a months like Microsoft does. For Windows users i can say,- check out http://www.lindows.com http://linux-mandrake.com All alternate Operating Systems are much more stable than MS Windows. For Linux/*BSD - you get Office, Internet Tools, Multimedia for FREE and this software will not throw you in bugfixing hell(cause it has alot less bugs than in Windows based MS products)

And one more thing: Open Source OS does not mean what it can not be trusted for security because there are people around all world supporting this (not just 1 company.) ;)
End Users can easily use this because distributtions like Mandrake makes it to look very good and they do general thing - they make it very simple to use;)


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