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Microsoft Announces Strategy Shift | |
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| Time: 00:20 EST/05:20 GMT | News Source: Associated Press | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced a major strategy shift across all its products, including its flagship Windows software, to emphasize security and privacy over new capabilities. In an e-mail to employees obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, Gates referred to the new philosophy as ``Trustworthy Computing'' and said his highest priority is to ensure that computer users continue to venture across an increasingly Internet-connected world. | ||
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| #1 By 2332 (129.21.145.80) at 1/17/2002 12:49:27 AM |
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Well, obviously this is in part a public relations strategy more than an actual security stategy.
I hope Microsoft follows it up with action... as I think they've been approaching security in a fairly non-chalant manner for far too long. |
| #2 By 2960 (156.80.64.157) at 1/17/2002 8:47:43 AM |
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Didn't we go through this drill about 5 weeks ago?
TL |
| #3 By 1124 (165.170.128.66) at 1/17/2002 8:54:10 AM |
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I think this is a great idea and I think they will do a great job.
I would like to take a poll. Any broadband users here ever had a hacker break into their system(leaving some kind of trojan horse or stealing some info)? I realize that this could happen without you knowing. |
| #4 By 4209 (163.192.21.3) at 1/17/2002 9:59:36 AM |
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Well it is about time, they concentrate on better security. But then again most software if not all has security flaws. With all that code to go through in an OS, I am surprised there are not more holes.
#5, I have had broadband for years and never been attacked. I even had broadband for about a year with no firewall software, and never had anything happen to my systems. I had the system all locked down and no open shares. As well as a strong Admin password. But I guess the average Joe home user with XP, that does not know how to setup the firewall or does not know about it, could have problems. They may not know to eliminate open shares or make sure they do not create one. It is hard to tell, there should be a poll on how many people have actually been hacked into with there system on a broadband ineternet connection. |
| #5 By 3339 (206.216.3.134) at 1/17/2002 12:27:59 PM |
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I agree with #9: if MS were to take this seriously, wouldn't MS have to shift its entire product launch schedule by 6 months or more. For me to take them seriously, they would have to because, right now, I know they are building as many features and bringing them to market as quick as possible. I would expect a real security focus to involve redesign in the beginning stages, which would require a philosophy change on the part of their developers. And then much more testing and auditing when the product is nearly ready for market. Can MS do it? I think they will still be more guided by quarterly and yearly revenue growth to slow down OS releases to one every 2-4 years. Just an opinion, you don't have to call me a jerk! :-) This post was edited by sodajerk on Thursday, January 17, 2002 at 12:28. |
| #6 By 3339 (206.216.3.134) at 1/17/2002 1:27:35 PM |
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#13, a lot of the things you mention they are supposedly already doing; yes, MS has auditing tools, etc.; softies here like to flame people down by saying you can shut this or that off, or my default install didn't have this or that on... No, for Gatesy to say this I would imagine that the analyst groups, gov't, and/or corporations are putting more heat on MS then the softies imagine (they think its all media flak and FUD). Since XP is their most secure product (because it includes a basic firewall (big deal)) and is actually _less_ secure than 2000 and since longhorn is the first major (but transitional) edition of a .Net OS, I would hope that there are many hooks, connections, and pass throughs that are concerning their engineers and developers. "Oooo, that's a cool little toy but no ones going to use it so maybe we should go back and rewrite it so that it's not such a potential risk." This is future development, meanwhile they should be doing hardcore auditing of all existing products because they'll be around for a while. And it's a lot harding to find security holes after you've built it and let your pride grow at is ability without looking at its instability or insecurity.
No, #13, if you think your interim steps will help, then, yes, this security "focus" will blow up in their faces. Of course, they HAVE TO DO these interim steps, but this doesn't mean that they can release planned products on their current schedule at all. |
| #7 By 4209 (163.192.21.17) at 1/17/2002 1:30:09 PM |
| #11, I highly doubt it. I check my security logs and every bit of my system. I am not a network admin for the hell of it. And I am not a Microsoft Trainer for the hell of it. I just know how to secure my box. When you have no shares open for people to hack into, and you use a password that is hard to guess, you do not need to worry. Win2K and now XP are very secure if you know what to do with them. Granted most people don't. But then again most people on Broadband connections would be using Win9x based OS's, and as long as sharing is not on they are pretty safe. Now this was before I noticed people trying to get in and then put in a router to be safe. But when you monitor logons on you system, I can be sure no one got in. |
| #8 By 1124 (165.170.128.65) at 1/17/2002 3:17:00 PM |
| mctwin2kman, thanks for answering my poll. Your answer, I think, is the experience of most home users. Thanks!! |
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