__/ [ Snit ] on Tuesday 12 December 2006 04:53 \__
> "Erik Funkenbusch" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
> 8e8ww9nzya4b$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/11/06 9:51 PM:
>
>> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:42:56 GMT, Sinister Midget wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/12/11/vista.security.ap/index.html
>>>
>>> NEW YORK (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. took great pains to improve
>>> security in its newly released computer operating system, Windows
>>> Vista, redesigning it to reduce users' exposure to destructive
>>> programs from the Internet.
>>>
>>> Outside researchers commend the retooled approach -- yet they also
>>> say the changes won't make online life much safer than it is now.
>>>
>>> .....
>>>
>>> Sure, Microsoft appears to have fixed the glitches that used to make
>>> it easy for viruses, worms and other problems to wreck PCs. But
>>> other avenues for attack are always evolving.
>>>
>>> "Microsoft has made the core of the operating system more secure,
>>> but they've really solved, by and large, yesterday's problems," said
>>> Oliver Friedrichs, director of emerging technologies at antivirus
>>> vendor Symantec Corp.
>>>
>>> MS: Always ahead (of 10 years ago).
>>
>> And what is anyone else doing to solve tomorrow's problems?
>>
>> Anyone? Anything? Bueler?
>
> I teach. :)
...software that is not bound to a company, one would hope, especially one
that is a convicted monopolist or notorious for a lockin strategy.
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