In brief: Microsoft reportedly held a secret Webcast with some of its closest partners to discuss ways in which the company might improve its Internet Explorer browser and , a subscription service featuring game demos, shareware, updates, add-ons, trailers, cheaters, and more.
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The problem with that analogy is that windoids are already riding a donkey, on the road but a donkey just the same. And anyone who reads this stuff and thinks that M$ has ANY interest in the user, writes good code, or is a good company by any definition is a donkey by another name.
LOL!!!
I had a talk with a friend a few months back. He was convinced that M$ had the money and resources to fix any problem. I asked him "then why aren't things fixed yet? Since when are money and people a panacea?" What you need is a plan, and they don't have it. They aren't interested in security, only in keeping people tied in, and since their plan for the latter is counter to security and stability issues, they'll lose in the end. All empires fall. It's starting already...
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as ye sow...
... and all that. They tied a browser to the OS, someone's bright idea of cementing market share by necessity. They they made sure there was an unbroken chain of scripting (ScriptX, DirectX, VB, etc) from the cloud to your apps to your hard drive so they could boast of integration. They didn't think through the security implications of all this, and are now about four OS iterations deep in a system that still fundamentally is designed to let anyone on the planet take control of your data.
And betting the whole thing on DLLs and registries doesn't help either. With all the effort they've put into failing cute things - .NET as a global standard, Passport, and six lifestyle-custom flavors of the current OS... they could bring it all back to providing a stable, scalable, secure platform.
Look, how many smart people are there at Microsoft that can't see that you need the same security designs that were in Unix and then Linux and now Mac OSX and draw a line in the sand and make it secure. If a tenth as many people at Apple can make OSX work and be secure and be backwards compatible with OS9 - can't they? Or how about patches that matter - How terribly hard can it be for them to (1) add a popup blocker like Safari (2) add a scripting filter like iCab (3) add a first-launch check like OSX?
Seems like they still feel they can do whatever they want, throw enough money at the problem, and everyone will accept it. Or maybe they're just too big and now it's sheer mass and good old inertia that threatens them, not monopoly per se.