A realistic look at their software, recent trends abroad and eastward about computer security and the new US law going into effect next May puts MS on the downhill slide in the near future.
There is a large but unspoken rift in the financial/legal world right now over MS software. Come May everything must be tight right and OK by the new federal standards. No MS OS to date (maybe W98) will be OK to use because of the security flaws>service packs>MS backdoor You are not going to hear a lot about this from those institutions directly affected. They are not yet changing and even so do not really want to say publicly they know they are running flawed software on vulnerable networks or worse yet let the public know the truth. On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:33:30 -0500 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It is truly amazing how bad this software is. > >The fact that it dominantes the planet is instructive. > >Although many people bemoan MS's dominance, there is much to learn from >this state of affairs. And, I think that this situation opens up >business avenues for the strong of heart. After all, MS is the big fat >target, not linux. > >I wonder if the US government uses windows in sensitive security >situations? > >These repetitive security problems certainly don't resonate at my place >of work. We are all MS all the way pretty much, and security doesn't >seem to be any big deal. Our secretaries are still downloading screen >savers from where ever. >Joel >On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:21:56PM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote: >> MS announces another security flaw. Guess there have been so many >that> MS is now giving flaws a ranking; >critical>important>moderate>low. I'm> surprised there is not a ranking >of "ignore", oh, wait, that must be> what "low" really means. >> >> >http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/bixtech/11/21/microsoft.security.ap/index >.html> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> >http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users_________________ >______________________________ Linux-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> >http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
