Microsoft is as committed to Windows as they were in the past. The company is not as reliant on that lockin any longer since the future for the company is Azure and online services like Office 365.
Outside Windows Server for specific tasks and in-house applications/data centers, I don't think they are as fiercely protective of the OS.
I've often said they should just consolidate the Windows desktop to one version and give it away free (they practically did for Windows 10 free upgrades already).
Exactly right. I'm afraid that the takeaway will be either "Equifax was negligent in applying security patches to its servers" or "They hired a music major as CSO; they need to hire someone with relevant experience." The fact is that their business model is not built around security as Job #1; board members, who the C-level executives answer to, don't care.
Security isn't a business model. There is always a trade off and a risk assessment needed to determine what level of security is appropriate for a business. Obviously in this case I agree they *should* have top notch security, but unless organizations are forced to they will choose keeping their bonus $ over spending money for things that "might" happen every day.
Human beings are horrible at assessing risk. Especially managers who are up away from the fray and who don't understand tech in the first place.
Thing is, this is what 'next quarter' corporate culture rewards - accountants and lawyers cooking books and lobbying for government handouts.
Exactly. These breaches are going to happen again and again to organizations until regulation steps in or, by some miracle, the technology professions start being given respect in organizations (very doubtful outside of tech companies).
At the moment CTO/CSO/CIO are the backwater and low power positions of senior management at non-tech companies.
Ask any programmer: "When was the last time you had a sprint to look at security? When was the last time your manager gave you extra time on a task to make sure it was secure?" The answer is always "never."
This person gets it.
On the same note, ask any IT infrastructure person how difficult it is to get spending and policies in place to maintain best practices in most organizations.
Very much so. Mistakes can happen, but ignoring a relevant CVE for months will not happen with halfway competent security people. The problem, however, is that no competent security people were hired and the CEO should lose his job immediately and be prosecuted for criminal negligence for that.
What if they had competent security people but insufficient budget / authority to override operations for a security concern?
We're being told the Western demographic is undergoing a population decline, so apparently we figured this out already. What's the response from the Left? Open borders so groups of people who HAVEN'T figured this out yet can come flooding in and reintroduce the problem.
You guys are absolute bastions of hypocrisy and ignorance.
Until our economic system is changed, we don't have a choice. It has nothing to do with left and right, you dummy.
Just throwing devices at the problem doesn't help anyone.
Technology has to be integrated properly into the curriculum very carefully and used in very specific ways to have a benefit on learning.
My child's school was super hot to trot on equipping kids in their grade school with iPads.. and it seemed to me like no one stopped to ask.. why? How will it help? In what ways?
I'm all for using it as a program to make sure that all children have access and experience with computers and the Internet etc.. it levels the playing field on that somewhat.. but as a learning tool.. I have never seen one of these initiatives make much difference.
Do you really think this is a left vs. right issue?
Everything has to be portrayed as a left or right issue to keep people distracted and fighting among themselves instead of working together to solve the actual problems.
Based on the idiotic posts in this thread, that plan is working out really well.
s/dividing/divided.. USA has been divided for years and it's not something that started all of a sudden when Trump took office. America is undergoing the tyranny of SJW's and has been for years. Trump simply exposes it for the hysteria that it is. He's very clumsy in doing so, but at least he isn't walking away from the over-inflated snowflake issues and all that comes from it. He may be a big bad bully but that doesn't make him wrong on all accounts.
Oh, and for the record, I'm not a US citizen, I'm looking at this from the other side of the ocean, wondering WTF got into you people.
The fact that you believe this drivel is astounding.
As another non-US citizen, Trump is a complete dumpster fire in every way.
He isn't exposing things or confronting issues.. he's making issues worse with his horrible understanding and statements about them..
They need the mobile device to be running actual Windows with the ability to tap into all the software that Windows can.. then you really can have one device to rule them all.
That is the last play Microsoft has in the mobile market, it has to be coming soon, but Continuum is the half-baked version of it.
Capitalism always trends inevitably towards monopoly. Corporatism just means we're half-way there. Still some consolidating and acquisitions to finish up..
Coding, however, is a meritocracy. It has quantified metrics and performance tracking by definition. You know who's committing what, you know how many bugs people are fixing, and you know how much code they write, what percentage needs review, and how impactful it is.
You know that modern games require a much larger set of skills than just coding, right?
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But I gotta say, he's not wrong.
Microsoft is as committed to Windows as they were in the past. The company is not as reliant on that lockin any longer since the future for the company is Azure and online services like Office 365.
Outside Windows Server for specific tasks and in-house applications/data centers, I don't think they are as fiercely protective of the OS.
I've often said they should just consolidate the Windows desktop to one version and give it away free (they practically did for Windows 10 free upgrades already).
Exactly right. I'm afraid that the takeaway will be either "Equifax was negligent in applying security patches to its servers" or "They hired a music major as CSO; they need to hire someone with relevant experience." The fact is that their business model is not built around security as Job #1; board members, who the C-level executives answer to, don't care.
Security isn't a business model. There is always a trade off and a risk assessment needed to determine what level of security is appropriate for a business. Obviously in this case I agree they *should* have top notch security, but unless organizations are forced to they will choose keeping their bonus $ over spending money for things that "might" happen every day.
Human beings are horrible at assessing risk. Especially managers who are up away from the fray and who don't understand tech in the first place.
Thing is, this is what 'next quarter' corporate culture rewards - accountants and lawyers cooking books and lobbying for government handouts.
Exactly. These breaches are going to happen again and again to organizations until regulation steps in or, by some miracle, the technology professions start being given respect in organizations (very doubtful outside of tech companies).
At the moment CTO/CSO/CIO are the backwater and low power positions of senior management at non-tech companies.
Get diversely fucked.
What makes you think this was a diversity hire?
It is very common for top managers in tech to be relatively clueless about what they are managing.. just like top-level management everywhere. :)
That said, I haven't seen any information about her qualifications or lack thereof.
Ask any programmer: "When was the last time you had a sprint to look at security? When was the last time your manager gave you extra time on a task to make sure it was secure?" The answer is always "never."
This person gets it.
On the same note, ask any IT infrastructure person how difficult it is to get spending and policies in place to maintain best practices in most organizations.
Very much so. Mistakes can happen, but ignoring a relevant CVE for months will not happen with halfway competent security people. The problem, however, is that no competent security people were hired and the CEO should lose his job immediately and be prosecuted for criminal negligence for that.
What if they had competent security people but insufficient budget / authority to override operations for a security concern?
I mean we all know there is no such thing as 100% safe in information security but this is not even trying..
Because sneaky upgrades were seriously annoying.
an original thought.
They don't have all the pieces of the puzzle to compete with Apple/Google & Microsoft. Even Amazon has more pieces.
We're being told the Western demographic is undergoing a population decline, so apparently we figured this out already. What's the response from the Left? Open borders so groups of people who HAVEN'T figured this out yet can come flooding in and reintroduce the problem.
You guys are absolute bastions of hypocrisy and ignorance.
Until our economic system is changed, we don't have a choice. It has nothing to do with left and right, you dummy.
But it is great. I really enjoyed the early Wing Commander series from Origin.
It really trailed off with the final couple installments but here is hoping Star Citizen ships in a less than Duke Nukem forever situation..
Just throwing devices at the problem doesn't help anyone.
Technology has to be integrated properly into the curriculum very carefully and used in very specific ways to have a benefit on learning.
My child's school was super hot to trot on equipping kids in their grade school with iPads.. and it seemed to me like no one stopped to ask.. why? How will it help? In what ways?
I'm all for using it as a program to make sure that all children have access and experience with computers and the Internet etc.. it levels the playing field on that somewhat.. but as a learning tool.. I have never seen one of these initiatives make much difference.
YouTube's popularity up until it hit a critical mass was built on content that didn't belong to them.
This is just the latest variation.
Do you really think this is a left vs. right issue?
Everything has to be portrayed as a left or right issue to keep people distracted and fighting among themselves instead of working together to solve the actual problems.
Based on the idiotic posts in this thread, that plan is working out really well.
Ummm.....no. This is the media brainwashing you and the left trying to defy Trump no matter what and to spread false news to delegitimize him!
Says the coward.. please, do inform us what he's accomplished?
s/dividing/divided .. USA has been divided for years and it's not something that started all of a sudden when Trump took office. America is undergoing the tyranny of SJW's and has been for years. Trump simply exposes it for the hysteria that it is. He's very clumsy in doing so, but at least he isn't walking away from the over-inflated snowflake issues and all that comes from it. He may be a big bad bully but that doesn't make him wrong on all accounts.
Oh, and for the record, I'm not a US citizen, I'm looking at this from the other side of the ocean, wondering WTF got into you people.
The fact that you believe this drivel is astounding.
As another non-US citizen, Trump is a complete dumpster fire in every way.
He isn't exposing things or confronting issues.. he's making issues worse with his horrible understanding and statements about them..
What happened to all the personal responsibility the righties are supposed to have and value?
* - citation needed
Yeah, there are a lot of misguided, angry, conservative (the American crazy version), white guys here.
Automation causes job losses.
If automation was already on the cusp of automating jobs at minimum wage, then those jobs would have been automated soon, anyways.
but Continuum isn't it.
They need the mobile device to be running actual Windows with the ability to tap into all the software that Windows can.. then you really can have one device to rule them all.
That is the last play Microsoft has in the mobile market, it has to be coming soon, but Continuum is the half-baked version of it.
Heh.
Capitalism always trends inevitably towards monopoly. Corporatism just means we're half-way there. Still some consolidating and acquisitions to finish up..
Coding, however, is a meritocracy. It has quantified metrics and performance tracking by definition. You know who's committing what, you know how many bugs people are fixing, and you know how much code they write, what percentage needs review, and how impactful it is.
You know that modern games require a much larger set of skills than just coding, right?