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.

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Bullshit bullshit bullshit

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`Users should be in control of how their data is used,'' Gates wrote. ``It should be easy for users to specify appropriate use of their information including controlling the use of e-mail they send.''

This is precisely what led to Outlook Express being such a useless piece of *&*#& to use: allowing the SENDER to specify how email is used. Sorry Bill, but allow the RECEIVER to control this. Spam, 4MB attachments, and OE viruses/trojans/worms are all a result of the sender being in control.

Just write me a damn email client that lets ME choose what to receive, and how to display it. Wow, amazingly 99% of the problems with OE disappear!