Spot the irony 12.06.2003
Can anyone spot the irony in Microsoft stepping into the security software industry?
Seems like their business plan goes along the lines of: make crap OS with security flaws, simmer for a while. Add updates and lip service for good measures. Announce move into security software when source code gets impossible to untangle and improve. Cover self with tin foil and simmer over night. At break of dawn, release new version of OS, promising unprecedented security, encryption, control, and the usual doohickeys for the digital age, just like the previous one.
Wouldn't it be more sensible to change the causes of these security flaws?
Comments
David | web / 11:31 / 12th of june / 2003
Oh jæs you har fuldkommen right! We alle hate Bette Blød ;-)
Rune | web / 11:52 / 12th of june / 2003
You're absolutely right!
The security problems i Microsoft products arise when the company wants to ímplement new technologies (often because it feels threatened by popular products and technologies from other companies) on top of the old legacy code from the 80s.
Microsoft's products are built up like a house of cards: without improving the aging, underlying code the developers just cram more and more stuff on top (features sell) forcing users to invest in new hardware if they still wish to be compatible with the rest of the world.
Thus is Microsoft amazingly able to sell the same software to the same users over and over again, each time with more fluff on top.
That users have become desentitised by a deluge of crashes and socalled "illegal operations" is clear evidence that it is not because of its superior products Microsoft is the king of operating systems and office suites but because of "clever" business strategies.
The company's move into the security software industri is nothing more than a glorified publicity stunt to help patch their ill reputation for insecure software.
Unfortunately the "stunt" might just cast of expensive and bug-filled products that, with the Microsoft-name on it and agressive bundling, will give the current players on the market a rough time.
Kristian | web | @ / 17:26 / 12th of june / 2003
