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MS Exec: 'Our products just aren't engineered for security'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the see-no-evil dept.

Various Microsoft news tidbits contributed by numerous readers: Phoebus0 notes that Microsoft's Vice-President in charge of Windows development states flat out that Microsoft products aren't engineered for security, absolutely guaranteeing he'll have tomorrow's Ditherati quote. Many readers submitted this Knowledge Base article stating that Microsoft is mystified by a wave of successful hacks on assorted versions of Windows (there's also a news report on this). Microsoft has another security bulletin out on the digital certificate spoofing bug that has caused them so many problems recently.

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  1. Re:Stop picking on the engineers by GreenKiwi · · Score: 1, Troll

    Actually, from what I gather MS's R&D engineers are some of the best engineers around. The actual production engineers are good as well, but nowhere near their R&D counterparts.

    Yeah, they get their UI from Apple, and buy up/copy any other promising piece of software or technology.

  2. PSS := "Poor Server Software"? by tlambert · · Score: 1, Troll

    PSS := "Poor Server Software"?

    -- Terry