On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Nick FitzGerald wrote:
> The MS Security Initiative is an utter sham.
Good comments about continued web-cluelessness omitted.
> At the outset of the Security Initiative the skeptics largely said
> "it's a marketing ploy", but its defenders said "it will take time for
> the real results to be seen". As the weeks turned into months and now
> years and little has been seen to have improved (and some very public
> things to have gone backwards), it seems increasingly that the skeptics
> may have been right...
For years, Microsoft has had a policy of announcing products that don't
exist yet, to cause customers to stop buying a competitor's product.
That's Vapourware.
Is it really any shock that they would want to prevent customers from
using more robust OSs and tools, by offering Vapoursecurity?
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Any sufficiently advanced Common Sense will seem like magic...
- me
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