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Microsoft Says "War on Terror" is Overblown

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the also-sugar-is-sweet dept.

SlinkySausage writes "The endless security measures imposed on society as a result of the "war on terror" have become overblown and intrusive, according to Microsoft Redmond senior security analyst Steve Riley. He made the comments in a talk at day one of Tech.Ed Australia about software security. Riley also fessed up that Microsoft cocked up XP from a security perspective. "We let you down with XP," he said. Microsoft also showed a very interesting new desktop virtualisation technology called SoftGrid, which allows applications to be virtualised individually, rather than a whole OS. Think Virtual PC or VMware, but instead of virtualising an OS, just a single application is virtualised."

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  1. Let us down? by thatskinnyguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They let us down with XP?! I think that means they totally screwed us with Vista!

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  2. Re:Karma gets even with MS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck Barry Bonds. He's a fucking cheater and has done nothing but sully the institution of a once great game. After about the 740th run, he should have been suspended until the steroids controversy was over one way or the other. This makes me sick and commissioner Selig is complicit. Fuck baseball. I'd rather watch a shitty soccer game than baseball now. Or watch paint dry. Which is kind of the same thing.

  3. Microsoft is Hypocritical. by wellingj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What about the war on Piracy?

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