WinUAE exposing how crappy Windows is

[runequester]

bonus points when installing something f's up your registry or mangles some required dll.

Installing an application should never be able to compromise the core system files, ever.

[runequester]

We never back up the workstations.
 
Until last year, they were still running on 256MB or 512MB of RAM, at which point I got them all to over 1GB. Most of them are on their original 20GB and 40GB hard drives.
 
All of our users also have administrative rights to the machines, many of them are software developers but even administrative staff have full access to their machines. Internet is wide open, nothing blocked, and these are daily use machines.
 
These machines are mostly hands-off when it comes to administration, I'm the only system administrator at a company of 100 employees.

I think its safe to say your case is an exception. The place I work at has a constant flow of PC issues with their (mostly) XP stations. Stations are restored from images pretty routinely to keep everything chugging along.
 
From my school experience this was the same, though back then, it was win 95 and 98 mainly.

[runequester]

If the whole "security through obscurity" thing was true, Im surprised there's not a flood of BSD vira out there to destroy the webservers of important stuff