Anonymous

Cumbria

IT

Just recently we've been rolling out XP as a replacement for 98 - it's been a nightmare battling with what can most positively be described as a 'crock of s**t'. NO WAY can it be made secure when the inbuilt security model is so complex as to be unmanagable and contains many hard-coded rules that over-ride the settings imposed by the administrator.

The only explanation for the 'issues' we've come up against is that MS have deliberately done two things : 1) made everything VERY complicated, and 2) made it even more complicated so that it can be 'fixed' by Active Directory.

It's so complicated that no-one can really understand all the security implications of even a simple change, and Active Directory is itself a huge security minefield as it allows wholesale changes to be made across large numbers of clients with little visibility of what, why, who, and when - what you can't see you can't control !

Give me open source any day, it allows me to decide what MY security policy will be and implement it.