http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=44741
Just a short quote from the article: "Ironically, Microsoft's efforts to deny interoperability of Windows with legitimate non-Microsoft applications have created an environment in which Microsoft's program interoperate efficiently only with Internet viruses," said Geer. The complexity of Microsoft's software--the report claims that integrating applications with Windows results in code 15 to 35 times more complex--results in a similar increase in vulnerabilities. And simply patching the vulnerability--as Microsoft has increasingly had to do on the fly as vulnerabilities are disclosed--only exacerbates the problem. "I don't think that Microsoft can ever fix this," said Geer.
