[CyberAnt]

Okay .. for those of us who don’t speak in dots and dashes, could you explain what that might possibly mean to me ..??

[dayglored]

Well, it mainly is meaningful to folks who work in mixed environments, where Windows computers have to communicate with Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and a host of other operating systems.

See comment #3.

If all you ever do is run Office and a browser on Windows, you would never run into the situations where SSH is used.

But for decades, every operating system except Windows has had some form of SSH (or its predecessor, rsh) for communications.

The entire internet uses SSH for communications.

Except Windows.

It's been a major pain in the @$$ to all of us on the internet for decades.

And now, at last, it's being addressed.

Does that help?

[dayglored]

Another way to put it is this:

If you never have occasion to "login" to a remote computer and get a "command line" prompt to issue commands, you don't need SSH.

If you don't know what a "Shell" is (in the context of giving command to a computer), you don't need SSH.

If you have never had reason to start a "Command Prompt" from your Windows computer, you don't need SSH.

And if you don't need SSH, you can safely ignore this whole thread. :-)