I wouldn't know about "extensive QA process" or the terrorist thing.
Microsoft ships with thousands of known bugs, and even QA still misses
some huge bugs, and also security type issues are just not addressed in QA.
(This coming from previous experience working for QA at Microsoft in
Cupertino).
What's really scary is that Microsoft deviates from the basic concept
around web technologies where the client SHOULD NOT ACCESS the hard drive
or the local client period!!! Exception being these cookies, which have
been exploited previously. Just a week or so ago, my machine was infected
by the MINDA virus, and all I did was browse the net, albeit with IE and
going to an infected IIS server.
There motto should be...
... Microsoft: Making it Easier (for Terrorists and Virus Writers!!)
Hat's off to open source!!! Open Source community is concerned for
security, while Microsoft's priorities are obviously not.
On Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 08:59 AM, Justin Rowles wrote:
>> I certainly agree on this opinion! I got bloody knuckles from the MS
>> driver (really just OEM'd from Merant before they spun off). bigint
>> didn't work at all right out of the gate. How many other bugs are
>> lurking if such an obvious one made it through the "extensive" QA
>> process?
>
> According to the current /. [slashdot.org] front page, a member of
> Al-Qaeda
> is claiming that MS was infiltrated and that there are deliberate bugs and
> trapdoors in XP. Microsoft says that the their "extensive QA process"
> hasn't picked up anything.
>
> Open source is safer for your critical applications. Apache, Tomcat, GNU
> et
> al are great.
>
> J.
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