Every software developer has done this at one point in time… You fix a bug but in the process, introduce a new one. Well, it sucks when the bug you are fixing is actually a cumulative patch for eight security vulnerabilities, and the bug you introduce is a security vulnerability that is as severe as worst of the eight you fixed. Oh well, here’s hoping they get this one worked out before exploits show up in the wild.
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Microsoft recently made some major changes to the Vista code to increase stability and create a more secure operating system. This is the “new” Microsoft. More secure, stable, and able to do anything that (*cough*) Mac OS X can. To be honest, I like this shift and borrowing (to use the term lightly) provides the seeds for innovation. To help improve security, MS is going to provide users with a product called Windows Live OneCare. It is a anti-virus/spyware scanner with some extra bells and whistles. (Windows already has a defragmenter, do I need repackaged it in this product??) Here’s the catch. It’s $49.95 per year. Now don’t get me wrong, you have to pay for Symantec’s anti-virus too. But[…]
Microsoft has recently announced pricing and licensing details for their OneCare Live service. Question: will users really pay the company that gave them an operating system susceptible to viruses, spyware, and malware an additional $50/year?
This is what one of the Microsoft salespeople at the AMD – Microsoft Server Build Event told the people in attendance—mostly system builders and value-added resellers—about the Microsoft Security Solutions competency. I’m paraphrasing here because I didn’t have a pen and paper handy… Folks are real concerned with security these days, and with training in Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004, you can build additional services revenue by creating firewalling rules for your customers. The Microsoft Security Solutions competency can be a great revenue builder. This is why information security—and Microsoft—gets a bad name. Giving people whose job is putting together computer components the idea that they should be making money off security. Meanwhile, those of us that focus 100%[…]