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Story: SP2 clashes with more than 40 programs

Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 16 August 2004, 5:24 PM)

It is ignorance even to publish an article like this not mentioning writing it.

If any reader knows a bit of what happening, they know it is not Microsoft's mistake or fault.

When they came out with DOS (for IBM, if anybody forgot) they were not told, the OS is not safe, etc. etc.
They built a new file system for DOS (FAT) that they developed throughout the Windows lifecycle up until NTFS.

The OS of course became more and more complicated with security features built in as required (or requested) by the market. Yes, it wasn't secure design, but it wasn't what the customer wanted either.

But in the meantime, they took over everybody's desktop. And with Linux coming around talented young programmers were compelled to prove Linux supremacy over Windows. There was more and more invested energy on viruses.

So by today, the demand is security and the business requirement is security. And since this became a factor at the store, Microsoft answers the challenge.

Now obviously with all that said, developers for Windows also did not care about security, not even mentioning to be comparible with Win.
So Microsoft made sure their crappy software will run on Windows. The funny thing is, this must be true internally for Microsoft, having so many independent development teams.

So now the OS is safe and the applications are not. Guess what happens? The OS will not allow unsafe applications to run.

Windows just arrived where UNIX always been. Welcome home, bro'.