Windows 2000 Gets Common Criteria Certification 533
Qnal writes "e-Week is reporting that Microsoft Windows 2000 has been awarded Common Criteria Certification.. Read more of the propaganda here. Basically, according to the article Any user running Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 is running exactly the same system that was evaluated. The Common Criteria certification is an internationally recognized ISO standard established for evaluating the security of infrastructure technology products. Too bad it takes 3 Service Packs..."
No wonder (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds like Windows 2000 is the lowest common denominator.
Here We Go Again (Score:5, Funny)
Yea, because we all know that open source software never needs to be patched. Yep, it's all 100% secure from the start. All open source software is versioned in whole number increments with no point releases for bugs. It's positively magical!
Gag me with an overstuffed penguin doll...
exact same system? (Score:5, Funny)
Their test system had two 120Gig HDs full of fansubbed anime and was running at 100 cpu doing divx encodes ?
Well, they said "exactly the same system".
Wait, did they mean my exact system ? How do I sue them for wasting my cpu cycles running benchmarks ?
This post was nearly funny. Blame the cough syrup.
graspee
Re:3 Service packs (Score:3, Funny)
Re:exact same system? (Score:2, Funny)
(mutters)Fucking cough syrup(/mutters)
BE MORE FUNNY!
Re:Stupidity (Score:4, Funny)
You're A Debian user, right?"
Now who's being outrageous and attacking with a blanket statement.
Re:If you want to update (Score:3, Funny)
I like this. Time to hire a 16 year old who's only job it will be to click Accept on software installs...