Publish the API's for Exchange (Yes, Ximian has reversed it, but make this permament)
Force them to open their modifications to LDAP and Kerberos in the server world. I-planet's LDAP, for example, works with Solaris, Win2k, etc, as does Novel's Edirectory. Does Active Directory? Of course not.
The browser wars really are over, what is imporant now is to keep MS from leveraging their desktop monopoly into an eventual server/internet monopoly, where things like MS-LDAP, MS-Kerberos, MS-Mail, Windows Media, etc serve to tie one down to only one end to end solution. Theirs.
Couldn't resist this: Here's Scott Culp, programing manager for Microsquish's security response center (Love that last line) :
``Viruses are really an industry-wide issue,'' said Scott Culp, program manager for Microsoft's security response center. ''They can be written for any platform. They can be written to use a variety of e-mail clients.
``In this case the virus author chose to target Outlook probably because it gave him better reach,'' he said. ``There isn't a security vulnerability in Outlook involved in this at all,'' Culp said.
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I'd go a step or two further:
Publish the API's for Exchange (Yes, Ximian has reversed it, but make this permament)
Force them to open their modifications to LDAP and Kerberos in the server world. I-planet's LDAP, for example, works with Solaris, Win2k, etc, as does Novel's Edirectory. Does Active Directory? Of course not.
The browser wars really are over, what is imporant now is to keep MS from leveraging their desktop monopoly into an eventual server/internet monopoly, where things like MS-LDAP, MS-Kerberos, MS-Mail, Windows Media, etc serve to tie one down to only one end to end solution. Theirs.
Couldn't resist this: Here's Scott Culp, programing manager for Microsquish's security response center (Love that last line) :
``Viruses are really an industry-wide issue,'' said Scott Culp, program manager for Microsoft's security response center. ''They can be written
for any platform. They can be written to use a variety of e-mail clients.
``In this case the virus author chose to target Outlook probably because it gave him better reach,'' he said. ``There isn't a security vulnerability in Outlook involved in this at all,'' Culp said.