Ballmer Touts Focus on Security

kevinvee writes "Microsoft's Steve Ballmer announced a renewed focus on security at the Worldwide Partner Conference yesterday. He recognizes the fatal user flaw of not applying patches and introduced an educational plan to help correct this. Also included in his statement was a response about computer researchers who publish flaws in Microsoft products, 'I wish those people just would be quiet.' The end of the article gives unbiased coverage of some people's opinions about the latest announcement."

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[Kombat]

Inside sources at Microsoft have revealed that as part of their effort to focus more on security, the next release of Windows, "Longhorn," will feature a handy "My Viruses" folder, to accompany the popular and mature "My Documents," "My Pictures," and "My Music" folders. Also, the OfficeXP assistant, Clippy, has been enhanced. Users of the next-generation leading desktop OS can look forward to Clippy popping his helpful head up from the corner and exclaiming,

"It looks like you're writing a virus. Would you like to:

• Initiate a DDoS attack?
  
• Publish a Trojan horse?
  
• Install a backdoor?"
  

Re:we'll focus on security .. this time we mean it

[00420]

We can't afford to switch from Windows

I know. If only Linux weren't so damn expensive.