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Microsoft on Security: We'll Break Your Apps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the windows-ain't-done-while-competing-apps-still-run dept.

jointm1k writes "Wired.com is running a story about how Microsoft is trying to act responsible and all by fixing (or trying to fix?) many (if not all) security holes in Windows. Not only new versions of Windows will be patched or improved, but as I understood they also plan to force security updates for older versions of Windows down peoples throats. Even if that means that some applications will mallfunction. Nice to see Microsoft taking reponsibility for their mistakes, but they really should have done so when they designed Windows."

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  1. Microsoft and Linus by PhysicsGenius · · Score: 0, Troll

    I guess the submitter has never read anything by Linus on the Linux mailing list. He is constantly making changes to the kernel and saying "screw stupid userland apps, this is the right way to do things". Even about non-security issues. And he's right, the only way to avoid massive layers of backwards-compatible cruft is to just slough off the existing infrastructure and create the OS anew for every release.

  2. "Microsoft Cock" by notwhole · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wasn't "Micro-Soft Cock" Gate's nickname in college?

  3. Re:Life of Brian jumps to mind... by cscx · · Score: 1, Troll

    This puzzles me, as open source advocates' number one claim to fame is that "we have security updates released within the hour of finding the bug!" But the truth is that they are never checked for app compaibility. Either you have full compatibility to programs that have coded to buggy standards, or you plug the security holes. Seems like you can't win in this situation.