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Microsoft Working With Security Vendors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the seen-the-light dept.

mikesd81 writes "The BBC is reporting on Microsoft's U-Turn. They've now given security vendors some of the information they want to make their products work with Microsoft's new operating system, Vista." From the article: "Earlier this month, security firm McAfee took out a full-page advert in the Financial Times to alert readers to its worries about the way Microsoft was handling the release of its new operating system. 'Microsoft seems to envision a world in which one giant company not only controls the systems that drive most computers around the world but also the security that protects those computers from viruses and other online threats,' the advert said. "

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  1. So does this mean that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Microsoft are admitting Vista will have security holes?

    Now there's confidence in the most secure Windows eva! LOLOLOLOL!!

  2. Re:Oblig by gstoddart · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them." Isaiah 11:6-7

    Hmmm .... I don't know what Slashdot you've been reading, but on the one I read, the obligatory is more of the form: in Soviet Russia, security firms give information to you.

    Biblical quotes ... not so much. :-P

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  3. fuckb! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Love of two i5 'I have to kill

  4. Related by caluml · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    An old Russian saying: The wolf will hire himself out very cheaply as a shepherd.
     
    My point? None.

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