Microsoft: Okay, Now We'll Focus On Security
from the it's-about-time dept
Maybe we won't need a law to make Microsoft's software secure. Bill Gates has suddenly realized that maybe (just possibly) they should focus on making their software just a wee bit more secure. The fact that (1) such a memo from Gates was needed and (2) that it's even making news should tell you something about the state of Microsoft's software. As others in the article point out, it's nice to hear such claims, but I'll believe it when I see it.
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Yeah.....suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure
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They take over Hotmail and attempt to run on NT, flops...
They start their big ad campaign last year on the reliabilty of thier business systems/software, their own servers crash big and publicly the next week.
I could go on. I don't feel like it. I wish them luck, but I do not expect or believe that it will be a quick or a smooth sail - for them or anyone in the same situation.
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Windows XP is the most secure OS ever? Anybody with a clue knew that claim was ridiculous, but the big hardware vendors bundled XP with their new systems and used XP promotional material in their own promotions, and the retail stores displayed those computers and XP upgrades and gave their "highly trained sales staff" training that repeated it.
I'm sure that Windows 2003 (or whatever) will be touted as the most secure OS in the history of civilization, and yet today I can predict with absolute certainty both that it won't be secure and that in spite of Windows' track record the vendors will believe the claims once again.
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