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| Time: 11:41 EST/16:41 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft just endured one of its worst years ever when it comes to security problems, which is really saying something. And to top things off, it ended the year with a near flood of trouble--from new viruses attacking Outlook to holes in IE 6.0 to vulnerabilities in SQL Server to a serious hole in its "most secure" operating system, Windows XP. Whenever I bring up Microsoft security problems, someone is bound to say something like "They have the most problems because they are targeted more than anyone." There is a bit of truth in that, but the company could make life a little harder for people who are targeting it. | ||
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| #1 By 61 (65.32.169.133) at 1/11/2002 3:04:43 PM |
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Maybe ZDnet should stop posting such sensationalistic crap.
Both it's writers and it's readers who talkback (most of them, anyway), have absolutley no clue about the computer world, or heck, just the world around them. |
| #2 By 61 (65.32.169.133) at 1/11/2002 5:31:40 PM |
| #3, or you can just get your head out of your ass and quit acting like you are some superior being. |
| #3 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 1/11/2002 7:28:06 PM |
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#3 - I have twenty or thirty years of experience and I agree with #1.
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| #4 By 20 (24.243.32.227) at 1/12/2002 12:18:45 AM |
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#8:
Geez, perhaps you should consult counseling. It's like Microsoft killed your mother or something. I grow tired of the rabid foaming-mouth hatred for MS when there's really know justification. They're just like every big corporation. Everyone loves to hate them for no good reason. Microsoft can be held accountable, I agree, but then, they are receiving a disproportionate number of attacks. If any other software out there sustained the abuse that MS software has, it would fail just as badly, or worse! yes, MS writes some pretty crap code sometimes, but please show me a software outfit that doesn't? Also, if you could please show me a software company that writes as fairly-decent software as MS does and IS CONTINUALLY INNOVATING, please show me. Some OSS intiatives are pretty clean, but they are just cheap knock-offs from MS software (usually). There is no real innovation happening elsewhere in the software market. Sure, a few start-ups here and there, but Sun and IBM have long since been stale. Java held hope for Sun, but it quickly fizzled. As for ZDNet-is-biased, is there any question? Actually, believe it or not, I'm not sure that ZDNet is biased in a technical perspective, but they're biased from a business perspective. They learned that if they continually focus and bash MS, they get tons of page visits to their site(s). I mean, AW links to them all the time, as does Slashdot. Stories like the above bring in tons of revenue for ZDNet. Why not post sensationalistic crap? |
| #5 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 1/12/2002 12:40:33 AM |
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#8 is really Frank Stallone.
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| #6 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 1/12/2002 12:23:35 PM |
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#11 - innovation just means the act of introducing something new. What Microsoft does is take concepts and ideas and introduce them to the consumer market.
All of the things you mentioned, you have granted the term innovative to a company that really didn't invent the ideas. So even you agree that innovation is not inventing things, but introducing them to the public in a useable manner. So given your own definitions, you clearly agree that Microsoft is an innovative company. If you look at the recent CES show, what was Microsoft showing? A centralized home computer, something that could become one with your home entertainment. It's wireless and communicates with many other devices around the home, including a handheld computer. What was Apple showing? A computer that looks like a desk lamp. Now tell me, of those two ideas who is innovative? I'll give you a hint, it was not Apple. BTW, the Linux community has yet to be innovative. Virtual desktops have been around for years, they were available in Windows 3.1 even. Multiple logins have been around for years as well. I'll bet you think AOL introduced instant messenging as well? |
| #7 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 1/13/2002 2:53:55 AM |
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#18 - It's very possible, but it is still innovative.
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