[Am-info] Opinion: Microsoft Not Focused on Security

[Fred A. Miller]

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Opinion: Microsoft Not Focused on Security

Jim Rapoza maintains Microsoft consistently places security behind
productivity when designing software, thereby inviting security
problems.  He conceded that the company has made some headway in the
area of server security.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,5101601,00.html
[Editor's (Schultz) Note: Until the public clamors for greater security
in vendor products, vendors are unlikely to pay greater attention to
security concerns.  And, as I have said so many times before, the real
problem is not security per se, but rather lack of quality in software
development.

(Murray) It seems clear that MS users would like to have security if it
were free. There is no evidence to suggest that they will give up
productivity (or even generality or flexibility) to get it.]

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Fred A. Miller
Systems Administrator
Cornell Univ. Press Services
fm@cupserv.org

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