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Microsoft's Most Successful Failure
m4dm4n writes "As we near the end of mainstream support of Win2k The Register looks back at what it has achieved. What was meant to be Microsoft's most secure OS ever turned into a disaster. Worm after worm changed the face of internet security in Win2k's first 2 years. Five years down the line the battle is far from won, but the improvements are dramatic." From the article: "Things were different in the year 2000. Programmers felt vindicated that the Y2K bug didn't turn out to be that big of a deal. We made it past January 1st, and then it was time to move on. Windows 2000 came out that first quarter, just as security was becoming more interesting to more people -- and Windows was a good place to start. It was also seemed to be the start of a new breed of Windows hackers."
sure..except that by using activex on a webpage, you basically require that people use windows all the way through the userdeveloper pipeline. This negates the whole point of the web to begin with. You might as well just ship a windows executable that talks to your backend over an encrypted channel and duck the dhtml scripts and web servers entirely.
C'mon, mods! A 2000 flushes joke! Blue stuff in the toilet! How is this not even mildly funny?