Microsoft: Trust and Antitrust

Microsoft is in the news for two reasons today: the continuing saga of the antitrust cases, and Microsoft's public relations push for "trustworthy computing". A selection of links: Microsoft claims two months of code reviews and half-day seminars surpasses everything ever done by the open source community; Salon talks about the problems with a monoculture; SBC, an abusive telecom monopoly, complains about Microsoft's behavior, an abusive OS monopoly; and Microsoft responds, claiming that SBC is merely being self-serving.

Comments

This says it all in the NYT article...

[Dharzhak]

"Geeks like learning new things, and when they pop out at the end of the process they're entirely brainwashed," he said.

So...rather than teach them how to properly develop, test and peer review software loads, thy're just going to brainwash them into good little Micro$oft monkies. Bleh.

Quote from the article:

[jspey]

Steven B. Lipner, Microsoft's director of security assurance, responded, saying: "I'd be astonished if the open-source community has in total done as many man-years of computer security code reviews as we have done in the last two months."

Hah hah hah!! What an idiot.

Mr. Spey

Re:The telling statement

[Black Parrot]

> Microsoft's greatest strengths have always been the ability to see which way the ship is headed, and when it turns out they're going in the wrong direction, to turn on a dime.

Rather, Micorsoft's biggest problem is that they don't see what everyone else is doing until several years later, and then they turn on a dime and follow along cluelessly, wreaking havoc in their wake.