Microsoft Says "War on Terror" is Overblown

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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MS copies from Apple again

[Jimithing DMB]

This SoftGrid thing looks interesting but I'm guessing the foundation for it is more accurately termed an application sandbox rather than virtualization. Well, guess what, Leopard includes a new sandbox function.

Re:Karma gets even with MS!

[syousef]

I agree.