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IBM Policy Switches From MS Office To OO.o
eldavojohn writes "It's frequent that we hear of a country or city or company switching from Windows to Linux, but it's rare that we hear of one third of a million employees being told to use Lotus Symphony (IBM's OO.o variant) over MS Office, and also to use the Open Document Format when saving files. The change has been mandated to take place in the next 10 days. Of course, they are doing this to illustrate that they actually offer a full-fledged alternative to Microsoft. With i4i stirring stuff up against MS Office and absolving OO.o from litigation, are we on the verge of a potential break from Microsoft's dominant document suite? Hopefully IBM supports OO.o past Sun's acquisition by Oracle instead of concentrating on Lotus Symphony."
Wow you sound ignorant. For a "security engineer" you need more training, or more exposure to the real world.
HA, HA, HA
HINT: The real world doesn't run Vista or Windows 7 in a business environment. The ones who run Windows tend to run XP, which is a sieve security-wise.
And ? The guy talks about issues that are supposedly unfixable in Win32, Vista and Win7 prove he's wrong. Nobody ever talked about market share.
The latest unpatchable exploits are just another demonstration of the lack of security focus at Microsoft, which if you've been around long at all you must recognize as a pattern.
Latest unpatchable exploits ? Which ones ? Come on, instead of insulting people when they don't spit on MS like you do, why don't you bring FACTS ?!?
Lack of security focus at MS ? Yeah, I suggest you go talk to guys like Dan Kaminsky, Chris Paget and others to see who in their opinion is a leader in developing secure software, you're up for a serious surprise. But then, you wouldn't know, you probably never talked to them since you don't seem to have a clue about what secure software is.
As for the "shill" comment -- considering your comment history, one has to wonder if you are being paid for your comments, as they fly in the face of reality as we know it.
That's right, not spitting on MS all day long like you guys make me a shill.
But then again, facts show that I'm right. Now, does being right make me a shill ? Or is it simply because you dislike reality that you hide behind this "you're a shill" shield ?
Of course the possibility is that you're some Best Buy or Office Depot employee playing "security engineer" on the weekends. In either event, I pity you.
You're right, I *might* be your boss in that department store