This has potential to be fun...
I wonder if they'll take questions from the audience...
"The FBI lists Internet Explorer, Windows Scripting Host, SQL Server, Data
Access Components, and IIS as TOP vulnerabilities in Windows, and yet
Microsoft either has already integrated these into the Operating system, or
has announced that it will integrate them in future versions of the OS.
Does Microsoft have any intention of separating the operating system from
these applications that even the FBI calls ongoing vulnerabilities, or will
these vulnerabilities continue to be ingrained in all Windows Operating
Systems?"
"Microsoft seems to have an inordinate number of security failures in their
webserver, to the point that Gartner recommended against using it. This
abundance of failures is in spite of the fact that their market share is
less than half the market share of *nix running Apache. This is in spite
of Microsoft's trustworthy computing initiative. How will this
announcement differ from previous ones which make great lip service to
security concerns, but never seem to lead to any positive changes in your
products?"
"Microsoft's Senior VP, Brian Valentine acknowledged vulnerabilities in
Microsoft's products recently, saying (and I quote), "We really haven't
done everything we could to protect our customers. Our products just
aren't engineered for security." Is it even possible that Windows can be
made secure by any method short of a complete rebuild from the ground up?"
Since I would obviously only be given the chance to ask 1 question, would a
couple of other people like to join me and have some good clean fun at
Microsoft's expense?
I notice Microsoft is hiring for a tech sales lead right now. I wonder if
this would hurt my chances at getting the position.
Kev.
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"Dave Owen"
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