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Can You Trust Microsoft On Security?

Posted by timothy on from the trust-to-do-what dept.

simetra writes "Here's a shocker... This story on Yahoo! is pointing out the obvious. How many of these until the suits start believing us?" Maybe the article is just trying to stir up trouble, though: ladislavb points out that Windows XP is an Operating System you can trust. (The review is also available on mirror1, mirror2, mirror3, mirror4.)

19 of 189 comments (clear)

  1. Apr, 1st by ceeam · · Score: 5, Funny

    I liked the "whitespace" joke better.

  2. "Can You Trust Microsoft On Security?" by z01d · · Score: 1, Funny


    No, I'll never trust Slashdot on anything today.
    I mean, NEVER

  3. Can You Trust Microsoft On Security? by GMontag · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this rhetorical?

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    1. Re:Can You Trust Microsoft On Security? by GMontag · · Score: 2, Funny

      Should I answer this question with another question?

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  4. Use NSA Security Enhanced Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because if you can't trust the NSA, who can you trust?

  5. Re:Umm... by Pharmboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think that the Yahoo! story is a Joke... it was posted 03/31 not 04/01... If it is, please correct me. I'd like to be wrong here.

    Hey, april fools or not, trusting Microsoft with your security IS A JOKE ;-)

    (and no, for once, I didn't bother reading the article. whats the use of having excellent Karma if you can't burn some every now and then?)

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  6. New feature! by Pilferer · · Score: 5, Funny

    The review is also available on mirror1, mirror2, mirror3, mirror4

    Yay! Slashdot is finally going to mirror content!

    Oh wait, what day is it?

  7. Well slashdotters..... by eclectro · · Score: 2, Funny


    It's time to turn off the computer for a day. Go outside. Walk around a little bit. Look up to the sky and feel the wind and sun against your face. Try to become friends with a girl.

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    1. Re:Well slashdotters..... by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 4, Funny

      O..o..outside?! You mean where the pizza guy comes from?

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    2. Re:Well slashdotters..... by jedidiah · · Score: 2, Funny

      You really don't want to do that in this area.

      While that old line "and the skies are not cloudy all day" sounds nice in theory, it really doesn't work well in practice.

      Besides... there are some of us who don't tan, they don't burn, THEY IMPLODE.

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  8. No worries. The next upgrade will fix it. by SgtChaireBourne · · Score: 5, Funny
    No worries. The next upgrade will fix it.

    Microsoft Corp. has announced that later this month Bill Gates will give a world-wide video conference to finally explain dot-Net. "It's time to ascend to the next level", Gates said, "we've cut elsewhere drastically in order to augment our sales staff in time for the event". Business leaders should expect calls, visits, and treats during the next month from Microsoft sales staff to ensure that all end users have installed the license for the current Windows Media Player and the licenses for the latest service packs. Calls will be followed by onsite visits. Microsoft sales staff, all licensed notary publics, and Business Software Alliance inspection teams to ensure that each and every the click-through agreement is followed up with a notarized contract.

    As part of the treat, each site will receive packets of flavored drink mix for a special toast at the end of the teleconference. MSCEs will give instructions on the preparation of the mix and will assist the sales staff in dispensing to executive staff.

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  9. The WinXP screenshot by Compact+Dick · · Score: 2, Funny

    in the review is a BSOD.

    What's more, a fatal exception has occured at F0AD:42494C4C.

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  10. My Opinion by nicotinix · · Score: 3, Funny


    Microsoft is as secure as a Ford Pinto is safe.

  11. Re:No worries. The next upgrade will fix it. by Pharmboy · · Score: 1, Funny

    As part of the treat, each site will receive packets of flavored drink mix for a special toast at the end of the teleconference. MSCEs will give instructions on the preparation of the mix and will assist the sales staff in dispensing to executive staff.

    Sadly, many will miss this Jonestown reference.

    More sad is how accurate you are.

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  12. Re:Trust... security?? by billybob2001 · · Score: 1, Funny
    Why don't Microsoft stick to what they Excel® at?

    Anti-trust!

  13. Trusting OS's by secondsun · · Score: 4, Funny

    I only trust an operating system as far as I can throw it. After comprehensive tests windows XP CD's fly 300 feet when launched from my skeet shooter and are still bootable. But most of my Linux CD's never survive the launch process so I there fore I can not trust Linux since I can't throw it.

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  14. also making news... by Unominous+Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    is sunlight really as bright as it looks?

    do you get wet by standing in the rain?

    is hotmail really secure? *
    * Well, almost. But two of three ain't bad.

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  15. The next version of windows by eap · · Score: 1, Funny
    will be distributed without binaries, which will improve security significantly and will remove the need for copy protection, service packs, and employees.

    The EULA for this release is reported to read simply: "FSF Lawyers are weenies".

  16. Hey..... by tankdilla · · Score: 0, Funny

    Sure you can trust Microsoft. Why the other day a guy named Microsoft offered me candy and a ride home. He had a lot of money and a pretty car so I said sure. Now i'm locked in a smelly basement, sending this message by trained carrier pigeon (my pigeon has a /. account). I guess i'm safe...

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