BBC Bill Gates Interview Part 2: Security

securitas writes "In the second of two parts, the BBC's Stephen Cole of the technology show Click Online interviews Bill Gates about Windows, viruses, security, spam, 'trustworthy computing', Longhorn and being anti-competitive. Sample quote: 'Certainly you can never underestimate the level of malicious people out there who are going to try to take advantage of whatever things there are. That's why we made trustworthy computing the top priority.' Streaming media in Real format is also available. [Video: Broadband | Narrowband] You can read the first half about the 'digital lifestyle' in Part 1: Bill Gates plots a Windows future. Here is the Slashdot discussion of the first part of the interview."

Comments

Re:Security? Ha!

[FinestLittleSpace]

what the FUCK are you on about? jebus, you cant tell a joke here without some linux loon answering with shit...

Re:Linux users always crack me up

[hcob$]

There's one fundamental difference in the use of Linux and Windows that is the root(pardon the pun LUG guys). Windows creates administrative accounts for the average use by DEFAULT! Did you ever consider how few scans for spyware/adware/viruses/worms, updates, and security patches you'd have to worry about if you simply ran your day to day work in Windows under a restricted user account?

What makes this even worse is that Windows Programs (at least the high level engineering, graphic design, and such) REQUIRE you to run in full administrative mode and therebye worsening the problem.

If Windows would encourage you to run in a limited user account role the world would be a much nicer place to compute within.