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do you trust microsoft?An article from News.com: Three-fourths of software security experts at major companies do not believe Microsoft's products are secure, according to a new survey from Forrester Research.Categories: technology Posted by diego on April 1 2003 at 6:38 PM Comments (please see the comments & trackback policy).
MS bad, everyone else good? Don't anyone mention sendmail... Murph Posted by: Murph at April 1, 2003 9:11 PMNo, I don't think so. But I do think that as monopolists and having *so much influence* they should be more responsible with the products they put out there. They have the brainpower. They have the resources: $45 billion of them. They only seem to lack commitment, as long as they have no competition, they're ok. Mmmm... maybe I should write a longer post about this :). Posted by: Diego at April 1, 2003 10:24 PMIts not so much that they don't have the commitment as that they've taken so long to realise that this is a serious problem and that they now have to do something about it. For example, XP has a built in personal firewall - although naturally its not enabled by default. A better example is Windows 2003 server which turns usual MS policy on its head as by default no extras are installed and everything is locked down (really /really/ locked down - e.g. shares start out seriously read only). Murph (maybe I need one of these blog thingies...) Posted by: Murph at April 2, 2003 6:44 AMCopyright © Diego Doval 2002-2007.
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