Slashdot Mirror
IT Practice Within Microsoft
SilentChris writes "Good article over at CNet regarding Microsoft's internal IT practices. Some intriguing statements from the CIO, from the obvious ('It's an easy choice for me--to run Microsoft technology. We don't run Unix. We don't run Linux. We don't run Oracle.') to the not-so-obvious ('Our users are the admins of their machines. They can load whatever software they want on their machines, but we do audit the network continuously.') I wonder how much time is spent combatting spyware?"
Aha! So that's why longhorn is taking so many years to write..
feh. stuff.
I'm sure his relatives call him up constantly when their computer has problems.
"We don't run Linux....we run GNU/Linux"
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
I bet Microsoft has a panic button on all their computers sporting Firefox, *nix and BSD that immediately displays a WinXP desktop.
users are the admins of their machines.
So even Microsoft has realized you can't do crap under a limited login in XP.
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
Of COURSE they allow users to admin their own machines at Microsoft. Half of their software won't run correctly in XP unless the user has Administrator privileges.
"Well Johnson, we found the latest build of Firefox on your machine and a copy of OpenOffice. Clear out your desk by noon"
I wonder what they did with all of their Xenix boxes? That's what DOS and Windows (up to 3.0) were written on, I hear. (Some Windows development on Suns, too?)
We start with the product group that developed the product, so they feel the pain first. Man, truer words have never been spoken (at least by an MS executive.)
Maybe because this is the company's internal IT practices, basically
I know I'm not the only person who read that as infernal IT practices.
i use linux and windows oh god how can i have an opinion
The Linux boxes are not here. They are not anywhere. They are segfaulting in the parking lot as we speak. I must now inform you that you are too far from reality.
English is easier said than done.
Considering that "billg@microsoft.com" is hard-wired into quite a few tools for use with anonymous FTP ...
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
For their SFU (Services for Unix) product. I'm sure the irony or the acronym wasn't lost on the person who came up with the name...
phozz
Thats such a pessimistic way of looking at it. You never know until you ask; some secretaries boxes might be much more readily available then you would first think.
;)
I'm an accountant for an insurance firm and I admin my own machine AND the dead rat mail/dns/webserver as well.
That's because all our "technical" people only know how to admin Microsloth products. If a couple of reboots doesn't fix it they re-install from scratch.