Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an About-Face
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Re: Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an About-Face
#2Too bad it's doing the opposite on the privacy front, trying to collect more data than ever about Windows users, by default.
Re: Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an About-Face
#3Too bad it's doing the opposite on the privacy front, trying to collect more data than ever about Windows users, by default.
Not to mention the usability front. Windows is ugly and confusing. It didn't used to be so ugly and was less confusing in the past.
Re: Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an About-Face
#4Too bad it's doing the opposite on the privacy front, trying to collect more data than ever about Windows users, by default.
Not to mention the usability front. Windows is ugly and confusing. It didn't used to be so ugly and was less confusing in the past.
Re: Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an About-Face
#5Too bad it's doing the opposite on the privacy front, trying to collect more data than ever about Windows users, by default.
Not to mention the usability front. Windows is ugly and confusing. It didn't used to be so ugly and was less confusing in the past.
I think windows 10 is quite nice. Windows 8 is a POS.
Re: Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an About-Face
#6Not sure 10 years is an about face?
Re: Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an About-Face
#7This is a weird story, since professional security people would have told you the same thing back in 2007.
Windows wasn't originally designed to be secure. Even NT, which is a serious multi-user kernel, was a product of 1990s C programming style. And while that's true of the Unices of the time as well, none of them had Microsoft's absurd user base, and so none of them had the same terrible malware incentives.
This all came to a head around 2001-2003, when the Internet worm phenomenon got so bad that Microsoft was routinely on the front page of CNN, and serious talk of congressional action began.
From what I understand, there was a dramatic top-down response, led by Gates and Ballmer, requiring software security training for developers, giving product managers the power to slip release dates to ensure bugs were caught, and funding what I believe is probably the largest 3rd-party software pentesting program in the industry. Several well-known software security firms (my old firm, Matasano, not really among them) were basically bootstrapped out of Microsoft contracts.
Today, Google probably does a better job on software security than Microsoft does, but it's hard to come up with another rival. Tellingly, Google's security efforts were also a top-down reaction to a major security incident.
Re: Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an About-Face
#8"Still, episodes of online hacking have become even more startling, including the theft of personal data from millions of Target customers and terabytes of private emails from Sony Pictures Entertainment (and both companies use some Microsoft products)."
So somewhere in Sony and Target's organisations there are one or more Windows computers?
This is just lazy reporting NYT. Do better.
Re: Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an About-Face
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to mention the usability front. Windows is ugly and confusing. It didn't used to be so ugly and was less confusing in the past.
I think windows 10 is quite nice. Windows 8 is a POS.
Once i had my most used stuff either pinned or as a desktop shortcut, 8.1 was no biggie.
Re: Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an About-Face
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to mention the usability front. Windows is ugly and confusing. It didn't used to be so ugly and was less confusing in the past.
I think windows 10 is quite nice. Windows 8 is a POS.
Windows 8 was great if you went straight to the desktop and never looked back. There were some terrific upgrades to the classic desktop (even the task manager got real-time graphs and proper hierarchies for the first time).
I always pictured a really talented dev team somewhere in Redmond plugging away thanklessly on things that the powers that be thought no-one cared about (like security and usability) until one day someone decreed from on high that the whole frontend would need to "beat the iPad", and it all turned to poop.
This is speculation of course, but drawn on multiple similar experiences.