MS Security Manager: Windows not Secure Until 2011

[WMD]

http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/08/30/1835212.shtml?tid=201&tid=172&tid=218
 

quote:"In a recent interview with Wired Magazine, Microsoft Security Program Manager Stephen Toulouse, when asked about their now 2 year old focus on security, comments "it's more of a 10-year timeline." He also reveals that he runs Firefox."

lol  

[ August 30, 2004: Message edited by: WMD ]

[Laukev7]

In that amount of time, they might as well rewrite their operating system from scratch.

[Commander]

is that not what they have been doing all this time? (not complete rewrite, but partial)

[solarismka]

quote:Originally posted by Commander - useSuse:
is that not what they have been doing all this time? (not complete rewrite, but partial)

You could say that.  But a rewrite in what sence?  For the benefit of the customer by correcting their mistakes?  Or to the benifit to Microsoft to which wants to move the total ownership from the customer to Microsoft themselves.

I have heard the 'OS rewrite story before'  This story dates back to the beginning of windows 95 and was resently touted when XP was first to hit the market.  If by now they have not learn't anything.

I.E. The release of SP2 and yet infection of the same kind can still infect the machine.

Then they will never learn.  One has to look back through history to realise that it is being repeated even though a few sentences may change.  If they are not improving their product, which by recent evedence they have not.  You then have to wonder what the real goal of Microsoft is?  Why is it they hold onto their PR, even to this day, and not move forward?

Maby it is bthe fact that Microsoft, being the over baring giant it its has finnaly ran out of space and stories to spin.  All it has is rhetoric and a few blinded zealots, but other than that. Nothing at all.