Linux Lovers? Keep a lookout for Windows.....Windows is a most powerful OS, but many users of Windows are quite noobs or in good words, simple amateurs. That is why Windows is still getting a backout when comparing the power of Linux. Windows can do all that Linux can do....I swear since I use Windows after learning to use it. I am an MCP, and so I can guarantee reliability. Coming to basics, 1. Users and Accounts : Windows has the most advantageous User management in any OS. Currently Win Users can be broadly classified into 3. Mainly, Administrators, Limited Users and Inbuilt Users. Basically Inbuilt users are taken into account as those created during the installation, namely Administrator and Guest. Guest is a disabled User. I hereby am going to approach the functions in methods A and B where A is the usual noob approach and B is a pro one. Method A: Usually people goto Control Panel>User Accounts for creating, deleting and modifying users which has the least level of functionality Method B: Goto Run>lusrmgr.msc>Local Users and Groups>Users; Now you have the facility to create, modify and delete users. The advanced features are shown in the figure and explained below.
User must change password at next logon: Prompts user to change their password at their next logon. Usually needed by accounts that are created by admins and then handed over to local users User cannot change password: Disables the feature of changing password by associated user Password Never Expires: There is a standard password expiry time (42 days) for accounts created in this method. This is a security measure but is disabled by this option Account is disabled: Creates an account but disables it Other advantageous features: Goto Run>gpedit.msc>Computer Configuration>Windows settings>Security settings>Account policies>Password policy You will see 6 options as listed below. 1. Enforce password history: remembers 'n' no. of passwords per user that the user has used. The user cannot change back to the passwords in the history list. which means if the option is set to 1 and the password now using is "test", I can change it to "test1" but then after I cannot change it to "test" until I change it to something else. 2. Maximum password age: The password is used for 42 days default which can be changed after which the user is prompted to change password in accordance with the first option. 3. Minimum password age: No of days after which the user can change the password again after a recent change. 1 means I cannot change the password more than once a day. 4. Minimum password length: Length of charecters in a password as a security measure. 5. Password must meet complexity requirements: Passwords must be complex enough for a user to use them. An example is 123!@#iii 6. Store Passwords for reverse encryption for all users in the domain: If enabled, passwords are reversed and then encrypted as a secuity measure. Goto Run>gpedit.msc>Computer Configuration>Windows settings>Security settings>Account policies>Account Lockout Policy You will see 3 options as listed below. 1. Account lockout duration: When an unknown user tries to break into your account with combinations of password, after a distinct number of tries, the account gets locked automatically to this time duration. Only an administrator can unlock the account in this time period. 2. Account lockout threshold: Defined the number of false attempts before an account is locked. 3. Reset account lockout counter after: After this period of time, the number of false attempt counter is reset to zero.
I will be adding more Windows usage methods soon. Thanks for reading
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What, about scalability?
Simple, because hardware manufacturers only release drivers for Windows. To make it worse, most of them don't even release the specifications. I think its a great achievment that open source OSes support a wide of range of hardware today. In fact, more than what windows might support. (check out NetBSD)
The fact that a loose knit of programmers around the world can collaborate and come up with complex software that threatens _the_ empire (with 5000+ highly paid engineers), overshadows any flaws that you might speak of.
No, but because it is wonderful to be able to collaborate with people and write your own driver. Neither Linus torvalds nor any of the "unpaid" open source programmers made any commitment towards you, to make sure that everything just works out of the box. In fact, you should read the LICENSE. They are doing it for the love of it, and you can always contribute if you want. If, you don't want the "hassles" of driver recompilations, stick to Windows :-).
On a different note, I would say that things have changed a lot. You might want to check out Ubuntu Linux.
I can understand, they don't really go along well. But if you are interested you might want to read up on business models of Red Hat, Novell etc.
I agree. But thats exactly where the open source spirit comes in. Why keep something you discovered, made or invented to yourself. Give it back to the community. A community of hackers is always better than an isolated one.