Thursday, February 09, 2006

Believe It

Microsoft will begin selling a security one stop shop for Windows. Unbelieveable.

Would you stand for it if your car came with an ignition that could be started by easy to fabricate keys? If your bank said "We'll take your money, and put it in a certain place, but if you want some real protection that'll cost extra."?

If this becomes a real money-maker for Microsoft, what incentive do they have to make Windows secure? From the level of CPUs that are turned into zombies, there are certain days where the entirety of the internet slows down to a crawl because there are so many machines that run Windows, and ends up affecting everyone. Much of the spam generated in the world comes from PCs running windows that have been hijacked. Why is it that Microsoft isn't required to build this safety in?

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