Subj : Win2k ban?
To   : All
From : Richard Town
Date : Tue Nov 05 2002 07:56 am

UC SANTA BARBARA BANS TWO VERSIONS OF WINDOWS
Campus officials at the University of California at Santa Barbara
issued a policy statement to students banning the use of Windows 2000
and Windows NT 4.0 operating systems on the school's network. The
statement blames the two operating systems for "hundreds of problems,"
some of which required temporarily shutting down the campus network. An
official from the university said that most of last year's security
lapses were traced to the 200 computers--of a total of 3,800 on the
network--that were running Windows 2000. A spokesman from Microsoft
said the university's problems stemmed from poor network management
rather than any problem with the operating systems. The university will
still allow certain systems to run Windows 2000, but only in
"controlled" environments where university officials can be certain
that the security settings are configured properly.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 November 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/11/2002110402t.htm

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