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Microsoft to Focus on Security
Anonymous Minion writes: "The Associated Press is reporting that Bill Gates announced to employees Wednesday a major strategy shift across all its products to emphasize security and privacy over new capabilities. In e-mail to employees, Gates referred to the new philosophy as "Trustworthy Computing" and called it the "highest priority". Gates said the new emphasis was "more important than any other part of our work."" People criticized Microsoft for treating security breaches as a public relations problem, so Bill Gates sent this email out to the Associated Press to prove them wrong. (rimshot!) Meanwhile, Richard Smith notes that the Globally Unique Identifier in every installation of Windows Media Player allows websites to universally track users, and Microsoft does not consider it a security problem.
not after all of the problems in the past.
Hmm... Now that basically all of our code is developed and systems are embedded in concrete... let's try to secure this, shall we?
Maybe they should have thought of this BEFORE they rewrote the OS?
The ______ Agenda
But is it any more of a PR move than Slashdot, owned by an open source (mostly) tools vendor focused mainly on Linux, pretending that Visual Studio.NET wasn't just made available last night? As well as the .NET framework SDK and redistributable runtime, free for download? VS.NET is probably more impressive than any software that's ever been released for Linux, but I think it's a remarkable job of denial that's been pulled off by the Slashdot editors so far in pretending it doesn't exist.
AOL/TW is, IMHO, a bigger threat now. They control major gateways to information, and can readily manipulate news and, in turn, ideas. THATS danger.
Objectiveness is key.
(AOL-TW-Microsoft-Oracle-KrogerCorp: All your neeeds. Period. If we don't make it, you don't need it. Sit, and Vegitate.)
thought of the day:
Do you think for yourself, or do you just think you think for yourself?
No shit. Slashdot has been feeding everyone propaganda for months about how evil .NET is, but now it actually comes out and slashdot appears to be frightened to mention it. Guess it's just easier to spread FUD about it.
A note to moderators:
The recent trend is to rate poorly argued points as trolls. For instance, someone will make a statement without much thought, but is serious in all respects, and gets moderated up. When someone else comes along and smashes this person's argument, the first poster then gets marked as a troll.
This moderation behavior serves to stifle dialog and downplay any positive points the first poster made.
Remember, a troll is post which attempts to illicit responses from others under the pretense of discussing the issue at hand, not a poor argument.
LS
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
I don't know about you but I've met my fair share of beer gutted, facial hair, and sexually ambiguous female types in college. They typically were near the gender studies offices. Eventaully the geek population could live in a hive like situation with a snarl toothed dumb breeder queen for every 1000 or so geeks with only 10 or so alpha geeks being the drones.
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