On Jun 28, 8:47 am, Linonut <lino...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
> > Would You put Your Life in Vista's Hands?
>
> > ,----[ Quote ]
> > | While on a visit in Romania, where Bill Gates participated in the
> > | celebration of 10 years since the Microsoft branch has been running
> > | there, and the launch of Vista, declared that, with the right amount
> > | of administration, the new Vista could run life support systems in
> > | hospitals.
> > `----
>
> >http://www.techdo.com/would-you-put-your-life-in-windows-vistas-hands/
>
> This is what he actually said:
>
> "Bill Gates: Security has been the top priority for Microsoft for
> quite some time and that's why I put out a key call for us to
> focus on that in a very big way over three years ago, and that's
> why we've made investments like having people from Gecad (
> Romanian company ) join on the security action from Microsoft.
> The answer to your question is that, absolutely, Vista is the most
> secure operating system we've ever done, and if it's
> administered properly, absolutely, it can be used to run a hospital
> or any kind of mission critical thing. But it's not as simple as
> saying 'If you use Vista, that happens automatically'. The
> issues about patient records and who should be able to see them, the
> issue about setting up a network, so that authorized people can
> connect up to that hospital network, the issue about having backup
> power, so that the computer systems can run even if the generators go
> down. There are a lot of issues to properly set up that system, so
> that you have the redundancy and the security walls to make sure it
> fulfils that very critical function. So we are working with partners
> to raise their skills to make sure that when get involved in an
> installation like that they can make it secure. So I feel better
> about Vista than any other operating system, but there's a lot
> of things that need to be done well, and we're certainly
> committed to step up and make sure these security issues are easier
> and better understood."
>
> The man is senescent.
>
> --
> Tux rox!
He could put Vista behind a Linux firewall. Or run it virtualized
under Linux.
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