Microsoft Launches SSL VPN Software
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| "I don't believe Microsoft can claim a substantial advantage over
| other vendors' SSL VPN solutions," he continued. "Most vendors
| offer similar features. The real value for Microsoft customers
| is access to a stronger solution." Juniper Networks, OpenVPN,
| and Cisco offer similar software.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070202/tc_nf/49782
These protocols that they change, extend or even replace make
interoperability harder. The least they could do is seek standardisation,
but they don't. See the links below.
Microsoft readies new VPN protocol
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| Microsoft currently has no plans to seek standardization for SSTP.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/1/21/6698
Related:
The Microsoft Zombie Army will force Samba out of the Enterprise
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| Vista is to ship with a new version of SMB, called SMB2. At
| minute 40 in this FLOSS Weekly podcast, Jeremy Allison of
| Samba talks of behavior that will flood the network with
| 1500 packets just to do a network file delete. This will
| turn Vista computers into a DOS (Denial of Service) attack
| upon Samba based computers on the network.
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http://www.twit.tv/floww14
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