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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DiViT who wrote (66544)	4/1/2002 3:45:05 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

This has nothing to do with Linux - this is general practice with all operating systems, applications etc. You tell one of the organizations involved about the vulnerability, and they spread the word where it is relevant. Fixes are prepared, and then it goes public. Microsofts problem is, that they use too much time in making fixes, which means they cannot have the fix ready when it goes public. Some of Microsoft's fixes have been months underway, and if you wait for that long until publicizing the bugfix, it becomes dangerous if the word has spread to hackers. Because Microsoft isn't able to make bugfixes fast enough, it is often better to tell the public and then make firewall producers, system administrators etc. make workarounds in order to secure the systems. I wouldn't call Microsoft untrustworthy with regards to security issues - I would call them slow and unfocused. They have removed the "unfocused" attribute by introducing "trustworthy computing", but they still have to prove that they are faster. I think their main problem is that the Microsoft platform still consists of Windows 98, NT4, Office 97 etc., and unless Microsoft does something to make sure that these platforms are secured better, they will improve the market situation for Linux. Dybdahl.