Post #24,682
1/17/02 3:16:58 AM
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Microsoft Makes Software Safety a Top Goal
[link|http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/technology/17SECU.html|Microsoft Makes Software Safety a Top Goal]
"Seeking to remove the tarnish from Microsoft's reputation for developing secure and reliable software, Microsoft's chairman, Bill Gates, distributed a companywide memorandum on Tuesday to call on employees to put more emphasis on making the company's products "trustworthy."
The new emphasis on making software safe from malicious intruders will include stopping the development of new operating system software for the entire month of February and sending the company's 7,000 systems programmers to special security training.
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He said the company was trying to change the culture of its software developers, who have been putting their emphasis on adding features to the company's software to increase its value.
"Every developer is going to be told not to write any new line of code," Mr. Allchin said, "until they have thought out the security implications for the product."
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Post #24,684
1/17/02 5:27:45 AM
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Izzat like the early automaker
who, at the funeral of an ex-owner - was asked why his cars had no bumpers, bodies made of tinfoil and had steering columns with sharp points? (but leather seats, flower vases, and 15 coats of hand-rubbed lacquer)
Amazing.. Jan 2002 and they're just getting around to -
Ashton
sometimes even invective fails
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Post #24,688
1/17/02 7:42:00 AM
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Coughing losing chunks omg
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
-- Donald Knuth
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Post #24,699
1/17/02 9:04:21 AM
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The ultimate non-sequitir
Micros~1 products "trustworthy"?
In other words, BillG(e) wants us to "trust" his "products"?
Yououtcherfukinmind?!?
You mean, like... trust them to work? Properly? All the time? Bwaah-haa-haaah-haahh-haaah-haaaaaaahh!*snort*
jb4
(Resistance is not futile...)
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Post #24,711
1/17/02 11:59:28 AM
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To paraphrase Mr. Ghandi
What do you think of M$ security?
It would be a good idea.
When I visit the aquarium, the same thought keeps running through my mind;
Leemmmooonnn, Buuttteerrr, MMMmmmmmm good!
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Post #24,726
1/17/02 1:26:02 PM
8/21/07 5:42:06 AM
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This kills me
"Seeking to remove the tarnish from Microsoft's reputation for developing secure and reliable software..."
What reputation for developing secure and reliable software?
The average hunter gatherer works 20 hours a week.
The average farmer works 40 hours a week.
The average programmer works 60 hours a week.
What the hell are we thinking?
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Post #24,778
1/17/02 7:47:32 PM
1/17/02 8:51:42 PM
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Two from The Reg join the Incredulity Follies '02
"We've done a terrific job at that, but all those great features won't matter unless customers trust our software." [link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23727.html|Can the man finish a single sentence without lying?] Then, Our Man Greene gives a lengthier dissection - though as we know: [link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23715.html|You can't polish a turd.] Imagine having to sit in an auditorium in a drizzly NW state, listen to such crap.. and have to pretend that it makes sense and - you Like it. For just $$. PS - YAN sample of whence the above 'polishing' metaphor came: [link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23700.html|Patch one POS to fix a larger POS!]
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Post #24,797
1/18/02 5:21:12 AM
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I must say.
I hope billg realizes that if Microsoft fail to follow through then he is going to get eaten for lunch.
Or maybe that's not a good hope to have...
Wade.
"All around me are nothing but fakes
Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
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Post #24,803
1/18/02 8:56:57 AM
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Just give me plenty of Maalox!
jb4
(Resistance is not futile...)
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Post #24,802
1/18/02 8:14:12 AM
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Is it really such a surprise?
When it comes right down to it, most Linux users will agree that the security issue is one of the primary reasons we prefer it over Windows. Microsoft and Bill in particular know they have to compete (or at least seem to compete) with their competitor's strengths. FUD saying that they were already more secure wasn't working, so now they strive to make people believe they will become more secure (without of course admitting to not being secure enough in the first place).
I have to say this statement was a long time in coming. We'll see how effective they actually are.
~~~)-Steven----
"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..."
General George S. Patton
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Post #24,836
1/18/02 12:21:43 PM
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Safety == comfort level
...and comfort-level == trust.
Microsoft's perceived security problems are deeper than the code. The issue's also now directly effecting the company's future growth goals. It can't expand into transactional processing, .NET, or Passport, if people don't trust the company, at either the technical, or moral/ethical/business level. This is a structural problem.
For more on this topic, Google tigers, stripes, and change.
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Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]
[link|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/|[link|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/]]
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
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