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Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof
An anonymous reader writes "According to Eweek, Bill Gates' keynote speech at this year's Comdex showed Microsoft's 'focus on security, spam and [the] tablet PC', including a new version of its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server, an extension of the SmartScreen Technology for spam prevention, and the next version of the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system. But the showstopper was a filmed spoof of The Matrix (screencaps available here), with Gates and Steve Ballmer as Morpheus and Neo respectively, and including a jab at Linux."
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Let's look at the security issues for November:
/ te chnet/security/bulletin/MS03-048.asp
/ te chnet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.asp
/ te chnet/security/bulletin/MS02-050.asp
/ te chnet/security/bulletin/MS03-050.asp
/ te chnet/security/bulletin/MS03-051.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=
WS03 is affected, but vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that IE runs in enhanced security mode.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=
Doesn't affect WS03
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=
Doesn't affect WS03
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=
Doesn't affect Office 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=
Doesn't affect Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 SP4
So as you can see, the latest versions of Windows & Office are definitely more secure
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2003-11-17 08:56:08 Comdex 2003 Opens with Bill Gates Talking Security (articles,comdex) (rejected)
Bill Gates delivered a keynote speech on Sunday evening to open COMDEX, as he has done for the last 20 years. Interesting parts of his security-heavy speech include Microsoft's research budget, with Gates saying that this year Microsoft 'will spend $6.8 billion in R&D, that's double what we spent five years ago;' admitting that tools which scan for stack or buffer overruns and other security problems 'are tools that we're not applying in our development process;' that security is 'certainly the largest thing that we're doing;' but waffled on security/patch management with this statement: 'Now, to really provide security, the software has to be kept up to date and the software updates have to be clearly partitioned so that things that are just optional and new features are kept separate from the hopefully increasingly rare updates that relate to security issues that have really thoroughly been checked to make sure they won't cause any regression.' Gates continued on about Trustworthy Computing, security, spam, firewalls, policy controls, XML, 'Seamless Computing' and the long-delayed Longhorn. There was also a parody of the Matrix starring Bill Gates as Morpheus and Steve Ballmer as Neo, with the Matrix represented by Linux-selling IBM consultants and the Real World as Windows-based. You can read the full text of Bill Gates' speech from COMDEX (with demos from three other Microsofties) or view the entire presentation online (56kbps low | 100 kbps med | 300 kbps high) for the next week. A warning though: the speech is over an hour long.
God, that was a funny film.