Today's News: Blame hackers, not Redmond, for cyberattacks

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Title: Windows Week that Was

A newsletter published by TechTarget   October 17, 2003 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  SearchWin2000.com: New site feature: Desktop Deployment Info Center >>  SearchWin2000.com: Visit SearchWin2000.com's new Dice-powered Career Center  Top News of the Week  >>  BREAKING NEWS: Charney defends Microsoft patch cycle >>  Critical alerts come on heels of MS security push SPONSORED BY: SearchWin2000.com Visit the new Desktop Deployment Info Center on SearchWin2000.com. You'll find tips, webcasts, expert advice and other key resources focused on all aspects of managing Windows desktops -- direct from SearchWin2000.com and Microsoft. Topics covered include desktop deployment and migration strategies, performance, disk management, hardware administration, application management, security -- and much more! Click here to explore the info center today!  Week In Review  Blame hackers, not Redmond, for cyberattacks by Larry Duncan, special to SearchWin2000.com Editor's note: Who's the real villain when it comes to security vulnerabilities in Windows? Not Microsoft, argues SearchWin2000.com editorial advisory board member Larry Duncan. In a scathing rebuttal to news editor John Hogan's recent commentary, "Microsoft smears lipstick on a pig," Duncan points his finger at whom he sees as the true enemy of corporate IT and defends Redmond's new plans for enterprise patch management as a giant step in the right direction. After reading John Hogan's recent article "Microsoft smears lipstick on a pig," I found myself enraged that someone could be so pompous as to think that Microsoft should be held to some elitist status, incapable of error. Mr. Hogan's comment about Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer "smearing lipstick on a pig" (a reference to Microsoft's new direction for patch management) is both disrespectful and out of touch. I wonder if Mr. Hogan has ever deployed a service pack or security patch, or if he's ever been paged in the middle of the night because of a network intrusion. If he has, I'm sure he would see that the changes Ballmer outlined at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference are a welcome change to the corporate landscape. Read more of Larry Duncan's rebuttal.. More on this topic: >  Critical Windows, Exchange alerts issued >  Ballmer lays out Windows security plan >  Users react to latest Microsoft security push >  Microsoft smears lipstick on a pig SPONSORED BY: SearchWin2000.com Searching for career resources? Visit the new Dice-powered SearchWin2000.com Career Center and find training, certification and resume resources along with over 27,000 IT job openings. 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Webcast: VPN fundamentals for Windows 2000 and 2003 servers Whether you manage a fleet or a handful of remote workers, you need a reliable VPN. Learn from Bill Boswell, respected author, MCSE and chief technology officer for the Windows Consulting Group, about the fundamentals of VPN connectivity and how it is implemented in Microsoft's Windows 2000 and 2003 server platforms. The webcast will air live on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 12 p.m. ET. TRUE IT BLOOPERS True IT Blooper #105: Too clean for comfort Is it possible to take your workplace sanitation to excess? In this true IT blooper, an administrator in Quebec accidentally threw out her company's backup with the bathwater. What a mess. Have a blooper of your own? Send us your wackiest IT stories. Submit your blooper!  Vent!  Take our member poll How do you feel about the firing of Dan Geer, the security expert who co-authored a report critical of Microsoft? Click here to vote! 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